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Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

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post #34

Does anyone know what happened to the push (primarily by Atwood) to create a spec for Markdown (possibly with a different name)?

Apparently it wasn't very successful: https://twitter.com/gruber/status/262287246953164800

That was posted the same day Atwood made the suggestion and although it would be nice if Gruber would play along, there is no need he actually does.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#43
post #12

I use Sublime Text 2 with Markdown Preview[1] + Live Reload[2] * [1] - https://github.com/revolunet/sublimetext-markdown-preview * [2] - https://github.com/dz0ny/LiveReload-sublimetext2

Same setup. People interested in markdown only editors must be writers which don't edit any other format.

Otherwise, I don't get why you would bother learning several pieces of software, and each probably lacking many features of Sublime or other powerful text editors.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#44

I've been using dillinger for a while, and I'm very happy with it: http://dillinger.io/ Also, it is open source: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger

It appears to only be distributed as a web app. Apples and oranges. Also the editor looks like a code editor (Erato also kind of does, but it has a margin and it doesn't have line numbers by default).

I wonder if Erato is also just using the Ace editor as that preview on the side looks like a webview. If they did that's cool, but then this basically the same thing as Dillinger.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#47

This has the same design as http://mouapp.com which has been on the market for a long time now. Mou is donation based so you can try before you donate. The developer is very responsive and the app is constantly updated. I really don't get it.

on top of that Mou supports custom styles, which I see no mention of from Erato. I happily donated to Mou, and really don't see why anyone would choose Erato over it.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#48
All of these (Erato, Mou, MarkdownLive) have noticeable lag while editing. I get that you have to parse and render the markdown, but with todays computing power, is it too much to ask to see the text I just typed as soon as I press the keys?

This is especially bad when there are images on the page. Why not just render the current block and leave the rest of the page as is.

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#49

You see, on the one hand I think this is kind of admirable. Yay, I type my markdown over here and I can instantly see the bits I got wrong over there . But I also can't help thinking, if you're going to all that effort why not go full WYSIWYG, with Markdown as the file format? (You'd need some kind of support for merge markers I suppose, I guess that'd be kind of tricky.) You know what it reminds me of? Wordperfect 5…

You mean something like this? http://www.texts.io/

Re: Erato - simple and beautiful markdown editor

#50
post #11
post #3

Looks like Mou ( http://mouapp.com/ ). Does anyone know the differences?

Erato has a more flexible window layout than Mou, and provides some nice editor shortcuts that programmers are used to (e.g. better identation features and block autocomplete).

It would be nice if that was mentioned somewhere. Looking at the website now I just see a Mou clone with less choice and no customizability.
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