already a text editor with this name https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret/fljalecfjcio...
Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
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Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#22The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright
Both of these like promising applications, but I've just been using the Atom IDE (https://atom.io/) with the "Markdown Preview" and "Markdown to PDF" packages.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#23For you vim lovers and Mac users out there, Marked 2 [1] in live reload mode works pretty great. For vim I like the vim-markdown plugin [2].
I get live preview, 9 different styles, code formatting, the ability to export to word, PDF, HTML, ODT, and RTF...and for blogging you get a word count at the bottom. It even analyzes your text for writing style like passive voice, long words, etc.
[1] - http://marked2app.com/ [2] - https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#24The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright
It'd be nice to have it be part of the editor, but `pandoc document.md -o document.pdf` does the trick.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#25Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.
For me, the point of Markdown (and LaTeX for that matter) is that I can focus on just the writing, not what my document will look like.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#26I can highly recommend ReText. https://github.com/retext-project/retext
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#27What Markdown is lacking, in my opinion, is a standard that was curated by the community.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#28The big thing I would like to see in Markdown editors like this is a pdf export. It'd be nice to be able to send a rendered markdown document to people without them needing to open a web browser to view it. There is a similar open source project here: https://github.com/dvcrn/markright
Not open source or free ($14.95), but MarkdownPad Pro[0] has a PDF export feature.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#29What exactly makes this any better than MacDown (OSX), and Markdown Pad 2 (Windows)? Both have side live preview, and accomplish pretty much everything. There could be some QOL improements in them, but I don't see how caret.io is much better.
Some of the shortcuts look better thought out in Caret (in particular the inline file browser), but mostly, it just looks slicker. For 5 bucks, I don't expect it to be "much better", just a little better.
Re: Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop
#30Guess we can't keep waiting for the vaporware that is Mou 1.0.