Macdown

[nelsonic]

https://github.com/MacDownApp/macdown

https://macdown.uranusjr.com/

Written in Objective-C so should have "native" performance.
Going to give it a try on my Mac today. I have a lot of writing to do ...

[nelsonic]

Really wish this was published through the Mac OS App Store ...

[nelsonic]

https://macdown.uranusjr.com/features/

For syntax highlighting it uses prism https://github.com/PrismJS/prism which we have previously looked at.

[nelsonic]

Open a file for editing in Macdown from the terminal:

open -a Macdown README.md

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Create a shortcut:

vi  ~/.bashrc

Scroll to bottom of the page in VIM and add the following lines:

# Macdown https://github.com/nelsonic/amemo/issues/42
alias md="open -a Macdown"

Save the file.

Run:

source ~/.bashrc

(This gets run automatically whenever I start iTerm so I won't have to do it again)

Now whenever I type:

md README.md

It will open the README.md for the current project I'm working on.
e.g: dwyl/sleep#53

[nelsonic]

Going to test-drive this today. 🧑‍💻 🤞
As noted above, I have a lot of writing to do ... 📝
Will report back later. ⏳

[nelsonic]

FYI: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/mac-markdown-editors/

[nelsonic]

Been using this for writing a tutorial the last couple of days and it's been mostly good.
Occasionally it does this annoying refresh thing in the preview window where it flashes the screen ...
But after restarting it seems fine. 🤞

Going to try installing it on the M1 Mac Mini which is where I'm working right now (standing desk) ...

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A good thing to note about MacDown is that it doesn't have a folder structure interface ...
I tried opening a folder in the program and got the following warning/error dialog:

[nelsonic]

Not having a folder/file viewer is both good (no distractions) and bad cannot see the files!!

[nelsonic]

With a reasonably large Markdown file (e.g. 5 pages+) the flickering of refreshing each time you type a new word makes Macdown totally unuseable. Going back to using VSCodium with Markdown Preview > dwyl/dev-setup#42