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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by xrisk »

abfar wrote: post #27
nickjj wrote: post #22

Are 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.

Do you know how you can render the PDF to make it look like Github's HTML render?

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by ScottFree »

nickjj wrote: post #22

Are 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…

In my opinion, markdown is a document format not unlike Rich Text Format (RTF). I want a program to read it, style it and let me edit it the way it's intended to be read. I don't want to see the code unless the program is getting in my way. I'm sure everybody's come across a text editor that insists you meant to indent that next bullet point and gets very stubborn when you want to do something different. That's what I like about Typora. I don't have to think about the code until I want to do something the program doesn't want me to do. When that happens, I can switch to code view and make it do exactly what I want it to do. Then I switch back WYSIWG mode and keep going.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by VvR-Ox »

keroro wrote: post #12

Also check out the near-identical open source clone, marktext. Typora will no longer be free once out of beta. https://github.com/marktext/marktext

Thank you so much!

I am addicted to Typora and this looks like it could get close. I'll try it and hopefully be able to switch before it's too late.

The idea to make a md-editor really WYSIWYG in the same window is a killer feature.

Of course MD exists so you don't have to bother with layout etc. but in my opinion I also don't have to see the formatting code (even if it's MD) once it is applied. This solution for me is the best to write texts, blog posts etc. as it is the maximum of distraction-free I ever saw.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by VvR-Ox »

__m wrote: post #24

You can’t beat a plain texteditor or html form in terms of minimalism. Seems like the wrong point to highlight

Then you did not understand the main feature of Typora & Co:

_real WYSIWYG_ writing MD in various flavors. Don't try to tell anyone a plain editor could even begin to compete - it is about MD being applied while you type and then quickly getting out of your way.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by nickjj »

ScottFree wrote: post #32
nickjj wrote: post #22

Are 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…

In my opinion, markdown is a document format not unlike Rich Text Format (RTF). I want a program to read it, style it and let me edit it the way it's intended to be read. I don't want to see the code unless the program is getting in my way. I'm sure everybody's come across a text editor that insists you meant to indent that next bullet point and gets very stubborn when you want to do something different. That's what…

If you use a live preview plugin with your code editor you can choose not to look at the code and focus on the rendering of it in a browser.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by VvR-Ox »

hs86 wrote: post #18

Most 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.

Yes this is nice but you can't really compare it to a standalone app like Typora / MarkText besides how it handles the content.

Some people don't need the 1k features VS Code gives you but some really good, minimalist editor to write MD with latex, images etc. I would not install an IDE to achieve this.

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by ScottFree »

nickjj wrote: post #36
ScottFree wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my opinion, markdown is a document format not unlike Rich Text Format (RTF). I want a program to read it, style it and let me edit it the way it's intended to be read. I don't want to see the code unless the program is getting in my way. I'm sure everybody's come across a text editor that insists you meant to indent that next bullet point and gets very stubborn when you want to do something different. That's what…

If you use a live preview plugin with your code editor you can choose not to look at the code and focus on the rendering of it in a browser.

Why would I do that when I can edit the rendered version directly?

Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor

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Post by brazzy »

swebs wrote: post #26
brazzy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Nope, definitely vi. I have a vintage book about Unix written ca. 1980, and the author's concern was that "vi's code segment will fill up most of the main memory of a large PDP-11, leaving you little space for the text you're editing". They considered their university's heavily modified fork of ed (the standard text editor, remember?) to be a better choice.
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