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Software Request: Two Pane Markdown Editor
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Posted by satis
May 17, 2018 at 08:05 PM
jaslar wrote:
> Appreciate the information. I’ll take a closer look at it. Using the
>left pane for outline-like reordering would be close to perfect.
FYI I was browsing the Mac App Store and came upon a $3.99 Markdown app I wasn’t familiar with that does outline left-pane reordering - OutlineText:
https://hibara.org/software/outlinetext/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outlinetext-outliner-of-a-text-file-with-markdown/id1202735151?mt=12
He apparently reused the code for a Windows app with a different name:
http://markdown-editor.software.informer.com/
Only has two (bad) reviews on the Mac App Store, but those reviews were posted before the last update (last summer). Caveat emptor, then.
Posted by jaslar
May 17, 2018 at 11:22 PM
Well, THAT’S interesting. Let’s hope that this particular feature (ability to reorder left pane sections) becomes the next competition for markdown editors.
Posted by Larry Kollar
May 22, 2018 at 04:00 AM
l-d-l wrote:
If you are using Vim you can try the :TOC command of the vim-pandoc
>plugin (https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc) that will give you a
>split-tree of the headings on the left or the VOom plugin
>(https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2657) that will give
>you a full two pane outliner with the capability of rearranging the
>headings. Both understand very well the markdown syntax and if you work
>with markdown pandoc and the related plugin are really useful anyway.
I loaded up VOoM… wow. This can be seriously handy for my non-fiction writing.
Posted by Larry Kollar
May 23, 2018 at 01:02 AM
Some useful lines to add to your .vimrc if you’re going to try VOoM:
” override syntax selection for Markdown extensions
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.md set syntax=markdown
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.mmd set syntax=markdown
” VOoM settings
let g:voom_ft_modes = {‘markdown’: ‘pandoc’}
The latter one makes pandoc the default syntax if you have a Markdown file open, so you can just type :Voom and get on with things.