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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
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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).
I use a self-hosted HackMD (now CodiMD) [1] instance for this. The hosted version pushes more and more towards account creation but you can start without account by visiting [2] directly. They have real time collaboration and a long list of additional plugins [3] that allow all kinds of nice collaboration use cases. For example it is possible to convert some bullet points into a presentation with minimal effort. What…
WriteMD doesn't look like it can compete with CodiMD, which is free software and can be hosted locally — two huge advantages. Perhaps it'll improve though. Always good to know of alternatives.
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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?)
Does 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…
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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).
I've found that the process of breaking a book up into "chunks" to be a useful one to me. If I can't chunk it, there's probably something wrong with the structure.
But hell, if what you have works for you, go for it. I'm currently using the LeanPub build system which seems to be just enough structure without getting in the way.
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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).
I've done this in various formats, including single editor, scrivener, and so forth. I've found that the process of breaking a book up into "chunks" to be a useful one to me. If I can't chunk it, there's probably something wrong with the structure. But hell, if what you have works for you, go for it. I'm currently using the LeanPub build system which seems to be just enough structure without getting in the way.
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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).
(Me? I'd use Emacs..)
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I've done this in various formats, including single editor, scrivener, and so forth. I've found that the process of breaking a book up into "chunks" to be a useful one to me. If I can't chunk it, there's probably something wrong with the structure. But hell, if what you have works for you, go for it. I'm currently using the LeanPub build system which seems to be just enough structure without getting in the way.
Sure, I could edit chapters, or even "acts", separately, and I did for some time; but the novel is a single work, and searching text, replacing text, etc, is much simpler with a single file.