Try pasting in 10 * characters and you'll see that it's almost impossible. Highlighting and pasting text is totally unpredictable. Here's a screenshot comparing Atom (top) to Mark Text (bottom): It's blurry and smudged on my non-retina display due to not using subpixel smoothing. This involved going to OSX's settings dialog and finding the Security & Privacy window to unblock. Why isn't there a demo online that I can try in my web browser? Isn't this supposed to be a simple electron app?Īnyways, I went to the trouble of unblocking it.

Due to being unsigned, Mac OSX blocked running this web app. I decided to give it a try, and it's almost a 100MB to download. Another was the halfway-in-between (shows both syntax and rendering) Abricotine ( ) which has the sense to mention it as the main feature: “Markdown editor with inline preview” and “you can preview your document directly in the text editor rather than in a side pane”. Of course, to someone else it may not be a big deal.īefore seeing this just now, Typora ( ) was the only Markdown editor I had encountered that does this, but it is not open-source.

This I've found to help enormously with being distraction-free (while still having the peace of mind from not creating an irrecoverable binary blob). The important feature worth mentioning (more than “simple and elegant” and “focused on speed and usability”) is that it directly renders the Markdown (in the editor itself, not in a separate pane or window), giving a WYSIWYG feel while still being backed by a plain-text (markdown) format that if needed can be edited directly (even in an different editor).

Set macdown default to open md file