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Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

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Re: Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

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Post by messe »

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free environment and as a bonus is in the base install of OpenBSD).

Re: Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

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Post by kjeetgill »

messe wrote: post #2

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free enviro…

I'm a basic bash and vim kinda cat too. Even then, I vastly prefer things in the browser for these 'flavor-of-the-week' type apps than many of the alternatives like:

  $ curl shady-url.com | bash, or
  $ tar xzf $(curl -O shady_url); make install, or
  $ npm install some-shady-package
  $ whatever other ruby/python/gem/egg/cmake/pathogen/etc.
  $ brew install cask github/shady-business
  $ docker pull ubunut+apt-get+myapp+postgres
Or hey, click this and forget about it in an hour. Ah. so much better.

Re: Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

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Post by b_b »

kjeetgill wrote: post #3
messe wrote: post #2

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free enviro…

I'm a basic bash and vim kinda cat too. Even then, I vastly prefer things in the browser for these 'flavor-of-the-week' type apps than many of the alternatives like: $ curl shady-url.com | bash, or $ tar xzf $(curl -O shady_url); make install, or $ npm install some-shady-package $ whatever other ruby/python/gem/egg/cmake/pathogen/etc. $ brew install cask github/shady-business $ docker pull ubunut+apt-get+myapp+postgr…

While these web-app things may be nice for quickly trying out these programs, for actual long-term use on my machine and workflow besides all of the other programs, they don't stand up to the test unless they are truly revolutionary and needed.

Re: Madoko – a fast markdown processor for writing professional documents

#10

Post by MR4D »

messe wrote: post #2

Why does everything have to run inside a web browser these days? I like my text editors/word processors to be lean, lightweight and focused on one thing: editing text. Everything Madoko offers here (aside from WYSIWYG—which is overrated when you're trying to produce content) can be accomplished with pandoc+your text editor of choice (I've been using classic nvi lately, seems to work well for a distraction free enviro…

According to item #10 on the page, you can download it and run it on the command line.
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