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by ahoge 3914 days ago
As somone who doesn't like to configure and tweak stuff for hours, my favorite Markdown editor is VS Code. You only have to set "editor.wrappingColumn" to zero (viewport wrapping) and you're good to go.

You can use tables, fenced code blocks (there is syntax highlighting too), and images (I use viewBox'd SVGs for my diagrams). And of course there is the usual split view and a live preview on whichever side you prefer. You can also customize the CSS if you want, but the default one looks fine, really.

It does everything I need from a Markdown editor out of the box.

https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/markdown

(The right sidebar can be toggled with Ctrl+B.)

1 comments

Good information on Microsoft Visual Studio support of markdown. Your lead in of my time is precious is a little disappointing, because everyone's time is precious. Do you do other productivity hacks like home row navigation? How much time do you spend in markdown? Do you find the highlighting and rendering 100% consistent with github or is your target something else? Is it following the commonmark spec? How does it handle highlighting complex (nested) character formatting? When there is a bug, is it easy to report? How responsive are they? Can you fix it yourself?