Haroopad - another free, code folding markdown editor

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Posted by jaslar
Jan 20, 2015 at 04:09 AM

Today, I found another open source, cross-platform, markdown-based, code folding capable editor. It’s called Haroopad. You can download Mac, Windows, and Linux versions from here: http://pad.haroopress.com/user.html.

The defaults seem to be set up for writers. You can toggle views: editor and HTML viewer side by side, or viewer (on the left) and editor (on the right) if you prefer that orientation, or just one or the other. It has a constant word count display on the bottom status bar. It has lots of themes. There’s an automatic focus on the current paragraph.

The best thing is code folding. I did have to toggle it on (on the Mac, it was under File>Preferences). It works reliably and consistently by structure (header level).

Other cool features: full screen editing mode, search, and some markdown enhancements for tables of contents, footnotes, and more. It’s easy to bump the font size up or down. It also supports and correctly displays the syntax for **Tasks**.

I haven’t given it a complete workout yet, but the markdown rendering seems a little off. It seems to lose lines between paragraphs. It exports only to HTML. And I haven’t quite figured out how to get spell check. You can work with more than one file at a time, but it’s not tabbed (each file is a separate window). There’s no navigation by structure.

But pretty amazing for free. I actually like this better than either Sublime Text or Brackets. HarooPad weighs in at 108.9 MB in storage. 9.3 MB of memory.

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