Is there any JavaScript-free WYSIWYG Markdown editor?
Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#22Are most of you using dedicated markdown editors?
What about using your code editor's markdown plugin and real time preview in a browser?
For example with Vim, one of the plugins launches a browser and then you get a real time preview while you type in Vim. The nice thing is you can tell it to use a specific CSS file so you can get a 100% copy of GitHub's README styles. It even syncs your cursor if you want that behavior.
I demo'd the above set up here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/writing-and-previewing-markdo...
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#23Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta. https://github.com/marktext/marktext
Also, here it is a list with even more alternatives https://www.saashub.com/typora-alternatives
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#24You can’t beat a plain texteditor or html form in terms of minimalism. Seems like the wrong point to highlight
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#25Most features can be covered by a few VSCode extensions like these: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yzhang.m... https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v... Other code editors probably have similar extensions and syncing the notes could be done with Dropbox/git/whatever... I am also surprised how well https://tabnine.com/ works with auto-completion for arbitrary notes.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I'm a Typora user who had no idea VSCode had a markdown extension. I just played with it, and it's really good, and I'll probably switch to it now as I already have VSCode open most of the time.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#26Hard to say that it is "truly minimal" when it uses Electron. There was a time when 75MB of memory usage would have been considered absolutely massive for an application with similar functionality. Nice UI though.
There was also a time when vi was considered a memory hog with crazy feature creep.
I don't remember that at all. Are you sure you're not thinking of emacs?
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#27Are most of you using dedicated markdown editors? What about using your code editor's markdown plugin and real time preview in a browser? For example with Vim, one of the plugins launches a browser and then you get a real time preview while you type in Vim. The nice thing is you can tell it to use a specific CSS file so you can get a 100% copy of GitHub's README styles. It even syncs your cursor if you want that beha…
I also just use Vim to write markdowns, but without any markdown plugins (beside the built-in markdown syntax highlighting in Vim) and I compile the document to pdf manually using Pandoc. I rarely need to write markdowns though, and my usage is not advanced at all (like to write simple writeups that sometimes require maths and code blocks, which I only use for myself). So Vim + Pandoc is enough for me.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#28I have used Boostnote and Remarkable, on Ubuntu. After using Boostnote for a while, it started to bug me because it's slow load time (it's an Electron app), so I searched for something native and found Remarkable, which is simple and really fast. It just lacks some of the organization features that Boostnote offers.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#29Is there any JavaScript-free WYSIWYG Markdown editor?
Maybe this: https://github.com/tcr/edit-text
But yeah, most browser based WYSIWYG editors are JS based, since you need to manipulate the DOM.
If you are not targeting the browser then you maybe find something here:
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#30Is there any JavaScript-free WYSIWYG Markdown editor?
On Linux I found Ghostwriter¹. It's working really fine, I use it for all my personal writings.
There is also a port² on Windows but it seems less reliable, I've seen it crash a few times, I still have to report it or try to fix it.