Very similar webapp that I use: https://markdown.pioul.fr/
Extensions also available for major browsers.
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#22Does it support a 400k* word text file without slowing down to a crawl (i.e. a 5-10 second lag between a keypress and a change)? I've tried many markdown editors for my novel, and sadly most editors fail this very basic test :( * Edit: I misread the output of wc. The novel is ~70k words, ~400k characters. Leaving the 400k figure above because of the discussion that follows, because it should still be a reasonable use…
Use and learn vim. It's been around for ages.
I did for a long time. It doesn't do WYSIWYG markdown, so I've switched to something that does (Typora).
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, the "very basic test" is not having a 10 second latency in a text editor. Come on, this was a solved problem in the 90s.
If it was a solved problem in the 90s, can't you just use a text editor from the 90s? No need to bash on this project just because it doesn't fulfill your use case.
Because there's contemporary Markdown editors that do work as expected. I didn't bash this one, I asked.
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#24is there something similar for AsciiDoc ?
AsciiDoc is a standardized format that's just as simple as MD. But far more features.
Have been looking for something that lets us author asciidoc documents, but markdown (with varying standards) seems far more popular. some of these end up as not being Github compatible or whatever.
FYI - asciidoc (.adoc) files are rendered by Github. https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/master/READM...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it is. This is a quite typical size of a book. Typically novels have about 100 thousand words, but four times that size is not at all uncommon.
Books should not be written in a single text file, though. That is asking for trouble.
Why not? Beacuse of bad text editors? Or is there some fundamental reason about that?
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#26Does it support a 400k* word text file without slowing down to a crawl (i.e. a 5-10 second lag between a keypress and a change)? I've tried many markdown editors for my novel, and sadly most editors fail this very basic test :( * Edit: I misread the output of wc. The novel is ~70k words, ~400k characters. Leaving the 400k figure above because of the discussion that follows, because it should still be a reasonable use…
Why can't you edit it with some fraction at a time?
I could, and I did for some time, but it's a PITA. The question should be "why should I?". I've since found a Markdown editor that works well for a file this size (Typora - I also had good experiences with Texts).
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#27Does it support a 400k* word text file without slowing down to a crawl (i.e. a 5-10 second lag between a keypress and a change)? I've tried many markdown editors for my novel, and sadly most editors fail this very basic test :( * Edit: I misread the output of wc. The novel is ~70k words, ~400k characters. Leaving the 400k figure above because of the discussion that follows, because it should still be a reasonable use…
At 20 words per line, that is 20k lines... why are you editing everything in a single file?
Edited with the corrected math. It's ~3.5k lines, ~70k words, ~400k characters.
Still, why wouldn't I want to edit it as a single file?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it is. This is a quite typical size of a book. Typically novels have about 100 thousand words, but four times that size is not at all uncommon.
In the context of a book, yes. But I mean in the context of an online Markdown editor. (Or even a Markdown editor at all. Can you actually write books in Markdown?)
> Can you actually write books in Markdown?
Yes, you can. The "Programming Perl" book by Larry Wall was famously written entirely in "POD" format, which is just like markdown. I don't know if it was split into several files.
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#29Something's off with scrolling. If I scroll the editor, the viewer seems to follow but actually it's not in sync. For example, I can see the two bottom sections in the editor ("What is markdown", etc.), but they aren't yet visible in the viewer. Once I reach the bottom of the editor, the viewer suddenly jumps to the bottom.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use and learn vim. It's been around for ages.
I did for a long time. It doesn't do WYSIWYG markdown, so I've switched to something that does (Typora).
Did you spend ten seconds googling whether there was a vim plug in that could do that for you? I did and I found this: https://github.com/suan/vim-instant-markdown