I'm happier with retext (https://github.com/retext-project/retext). Fully open-sourced, live preview, and taking ~50% less resources than Typora to deliver the same features. If I'm not using vim, I'm in live preview mode in retext.
Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
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Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
One benefit I guess is you don't need a dedicated program and you can continue using your code editor. You also have full control of what the render looks like (which is helpful for GitHub READMEs).
Also with Vim (I can't speak for other editors) it has the option of concealing the markdown characters themselves so it looks more like a rendering of it. I don't use that personally but if you prefer not seeing the noise of backticks for code blocks or double asterisks for bold you can hide it.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#43Earlier 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?
There was a time when vi and some of its variants (for instance vim) were considered relatively heavy, at least on shared servers. I'm thinking back to my Uni days with two rooms full of vt100 clones all connected to one poor box and people telnet-ing in from other locations too (SSH was pretty much brand new at that point so wasn't available). Of course emacs was worse, but there were even leaner options than vi/vim/related too.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#44Are 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 use vim for markdown editing, but I've been searching for a better alternative. Mainly, I want to be able to easily copy-paste between the editor and other programs. This is hard with vim because yank doesn't pull into the system clipboard by default. In my 11 years of working with vim, I've only found a reliable way to configure that behaviour twice, but it stopped working.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would I do that when I can edit the rendered version directly?
One benefit I guess is you don't need a dedicated program and you can continue using your code editor. You also have full control of what the render looks like (which is helpful for GitHub READMEs). Also with Vim (I can't speak for other editors) it has the option of concealing the markdown characters themselves so it looks more like a rendering of it. I don't use that personally but if you prefer not seeing the nois…
You don't seem to be getting the point. Vim is for code. Typora is for documents. They are different tools tailored specifically for different jobs. You wouldn't use microsoft word to write code, would you?
If you like vim and want to use it for markdown, that's great. I personally like a more specialized tool. Then again, I'm also a writer and spend more time in that mode than most programmers. If you spend all your time programming and only occasionally need to write a markdown document, then I can see the appeal of the setup you're describing.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#46I tried about every noteworthy Markdown editor in recent years. Typora is the one I am still using. Great work. I hope they don’t ask for a subscription fee, but one time payment, once out of beta.
Yeah agreed. I remember trying around 15 different dedicated editors and Typora was the first one to really grab my attention. I've been using it ever since. I don't usually buy much software, but would be happy to buy Typora if it was a one time payment.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#47Are 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 use vim for markdown editing, but I've been searching for a better alternative. Mainly, I want to be able to easily copy-paste between the editor and other programs. This is hard with vim because yank doesn't pull into the system clipboard by default. In my 11 years of working with vim, I've only found a reliable way to configure that behaviour twice, but it stopped working.
> Mainly, I want to be able to easily copy-paste between the editor and other programs. This is hard with vim because yank doesn't pull into the system clipboard by default. In my 11 years of working with vim, I've only found a reliable way to configure that behaviour twice, but it stopped working.
If you run Vim with +clipboard support then you can yank things directly to and from your system clipboard by setting `set clipboard=unnamedplus`.
Then Vim copy / pasting will work seamlessly like any other program on your system.
You can also have it seamlessly work with tmux too and even with WSL if you're using terminal Vim in Windows through WSL.
Here's a video that demos how it all works and also has a link to my dotfiles: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/getting-copy-paste-to-work-in...
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
One benefit I guess is you don't need a dedicated program and you can continue using your code editor. You also have full control of what the render looks like (which is helpful for GitHub READMEs). Also with Vim (I can't speak for other editors) it has the option of concealing the markdown characters themselves so it looks more like a rendering of it. I don't use that personally but if you prefer not seeing the nois…
You don't seem to be getting the point. Vim is for code. Typora is for documents. They are different tools tailored specifically for different jobs. You wouldn't use microsoft word to write code, would you? If you like vim and want to use it for markdown, that's great. I personally like a more specialized tool. Then again, I'm also a writer and spend more time in that mode than most programmers. If you spend all your…
I spend about 50% of my time programming and 50% writing. I often deal with 300,000+ word markdown files because part of what I do for a living is write technical courses. I've written about a million words of markdown over the last ~5 years.
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#49Due to the bugs in Apple Notes on macOS 10.15 and iOS 13, I just spent some time evaluating as many note taking apps for Mac as possible. I ended up picking https://ia.net/writer
Typora was interesting but it was very buggy, and doesn't handle tags which are important for notes.
My main criteria were an open file format, ideally editing plain text files on disk using Markdown as the formatting. This ruled out apps like OneNote, InkDrop, Standard Notes and others.
If you don't mind about having a proprietary database so long as the data can be exported to Markdown, https://bear.app is my favourite so long as you're on an Apple device.
I will also be interested in https://nvultra.com/ once it comes out of private beta.
I published my full writeup today at https://davidmytton.blog/the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-m...
Re: Typora: A truly minimal markdown editor
#50I keep coming back to simplenote (https://app.simplenote.com/) each time I try one of these "minimal markdown editors". Works on every platform I've tried, open source, and maintained. I enjoy seeing folks making improvements to the minimal model, but I personally haven't found any life-changing enough to switch. Keep recommending options, though, I'm looking forward to seeing what folks create!