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Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 29, 2015 at 03:10 PM
Worth mentioning that Dapeng (the developer) is working on an iPad version, too. And has Big Plans!
He’s also the man behind the rather appealing GeniusWiki (one of the better examples of the wiki concept).
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.
Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 30, 2015 at 10:21 AM
jaslar wrote:
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.
Actually, the work is already done. Fletcher Penny’s MultiMarkdown code already includes tables, as do several other markdown flavors. The coding is not complex. It is open sourced on GitHub. There a numerous other open source markdown engines on Git and elsewhere. Any 101 developer can figure this out.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 30, 2015 at 02:10 PM
Hm, not sure. I know it does do code (you can set up your own templates for e.g. Python), and Dapeng is very responsive, so he might/might not regard code folding as trivially easy to implement. Certainly worth asking him – he will almost certainly reply and let you know how imminent such a feature is.
>- 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.
Posted by jaslar
Mar 30, 2015 at 08:50 PM
Yes, of course. If the function is there, I wouldn’t want to remove it. Pick a style of markdown (like Github) and you get the goodies that come with it, like Tasks. Good point. Although I admit I haven’t messed with tabs in markdown yet.