the perfect markdown editor

Posted by jaslar
Mar 30, 2015 at 12:31 AM

Thank you all for your (as usual) thoughtful comments. A few questions and comments:

- Dr. Andus. Yes, an all-in-one not only isn’t likely, it probably isn’t desirable. So many tools fall apart when they add one function too many. Writemonkey and SmartDown are, well, smart, to focus on what just what the authors (and users) think matter.

- MadAboutDana. Textnut (gotta love the name) doesn’t do code folding, right? To tie this into my comments to Dr. Andus, I get that an app can’t (or shouldn’t) be all things to all people. But the point of this thread is to try to whittle things down to an essential list of functions. Code folding, for me, belongs in that short list. If an app does Markdown, but doesn’t do outlining or code folding, it fails my core checklist of a *perfect* markdown editor.

- Paul Korn. Tables are (for me) right on the edge. Yes, I use them. Is it part of the core feature set, for me? Aargh. I’m sure this is the kind of thing that drives software developers crazy.