the perfect markdown editor

Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 28, 2015 at 11:48 PM

Okay, while I wouldn’t say it yet meets all jaslar’s criteria for the perfect Markdown editor, it’s made some substantial progress on its way there:

Textnut is back! And version 2.0 is awesome, because it supports import/export of external files (previously it was entirely isolated).

It’s got by far the most sophisticated Markdown editor of any, in that it generates rich text as you’re typing in your code (you can switch to a separate Markdown mode if you want to change something). So what you see in front of you is rich text rather than awkward Markdown. And it does it very fast and seamlessly, without stuttering or stumbling.

I believe it would make a great companion app for the very good but currently OS X-less 1Writer on iOS. I shall be trying that out!

The only thing it’s really missing at the moment (okay, jaslar, apart from tabs) is a global search function. But Dapeng is a nice, responsive developer and you can contact him via the Textnut website at http://www.textnutwriter.com/ (there’s a feedback form there).