Markdown + VsCode has been working really good for me. I would highly recommend this option, it’s simple and it just works.
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Yes that looks like it would work. VSCode seems to be able to display the rendered markdown alongside the edited file dynamically.
I have been using Keenwrite and Formiko with markdown.
They work. Formiko even allows a vi editing mode.
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VSCode also has a Vim extension. I haven’t used it, but for a die-hard Vim fan, it should help.
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The problem with vscode is that it eats memory and cpu for breakfast, especially if you have a lot of plugins and/or tabs open. The advantage of all the vi clones here is they basically consume almost no RAM or CPU. However, their drawback is the learning curve. That being said, I’ve been made aware you can be waaaaay more efficient with vi and all of its clones… ONCE you become competent at using it.
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Hooray for that.
The vi learning curve is exaggerated. You only need to learn cursor movement, paging, insert ( and append) commands, and a few others. The biggest thing is getting used to the two modes… insert mode and command mode.
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Did u try lyx https://www.lyx.org/
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Hi Donnie,
That looks interesting. I use Latex . Will give it a run.
Regards
Neville
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I tried lyx.
It does not seem to understand markdown.
All I could do was read in the .md file as a .txt file, and then I could edit it, but it would not render it.
It seems to have the ‘Microsoft disease’ of insisting on suffixes on filenames instead of looking at the file type.
Might have another go with Latex
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What are the markers that you’re dealing with a markdown file, other than the .md extension?
As far as I’m aware, markdown is a form of plain text, with some added markers which remind renderers to do some special stuff.
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Yes it is. You can edit a .md file with any text editor.
What happpened in lyx was, it would not display a .md file in its ‘open’ window.
I had to change the filename to whatever.txt before it would see the file.
The whole idea in Unix is you can use a dot extension in a filename, but you dont have to. Unix programs should look at the file type not the extension.
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I think I may have missed your meaning.
There is no special marker in a markdown file. You can determine its file type with a
Unix file command, regardless of whether it has a .md extension in its filename.
The markdown editor which seems to work best for me is keenwrite
I have tried others ( remarkable, formiko, marker) but keenwrite is the most rugged
in that it does not trip up on the various syntax variations between marker versions.
I try to stick to the Github version of markdown, and keenwrite supports that.
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I just discovered that my notekeeper CherryTree actually meets my needs for a simple word processor. It provides text formatting, lists, tables, inserted images, headings, links, export to pdf, print, many of the things you could do with html. But still it is much simpler than Libre Office Writer. I would have been using this for most word processing for years had I realized. If it was a snake it would have bit me!
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It even does math equations, using Latex.
I wish it supported Markdown.
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Jim has corrected me. Cherrytree can import .md files
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I like the idea of using one tool for all document work. It saves me from multiple learning curves
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Is this it? cherrytree – giuspen I did a quick read through and it looks interesting but I’m not sure about the way it seems to want to put everything in one document… I do one thing / one document and feel that gives better protection against data loss as there isn’t a single point of failure…
I also think it is critical to be able to save in Open Doc and possibly MS Orifice formats which this doesn’t seem to do…
ex-Gooserider
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I am with Arthur on this. Unless you work alone and never share fine, but the rest of the world like it or not use a word format documet so everything can open it, and better still a slightly older file version.
But interesting tool I thought html editor when i saw it. But now use wysiwyg developer to create my html code as i am lazy
Yes.
also here
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I don’t use markdown, but I see that in the File / Import menu there is “from Markdown File”. Does that help?
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It has all notes in one file, but if I am creating a document I would export it as a separate file in pdf or html or CTree format. Everyone has readers for pdf and html. If recipients need to EDIT the file, then yes, that could be a problem. I usually don’t want others to edit, just read. 
You have a good point that file management with this app is awkward when used as a word processor.
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Yes thanks Jim.
i was just looking and discovered that.
So I could write Markdown as a text file in cherrytree or in any editor, save it, then import it to see the rendered markdown.
Not quite as good as some of the markdown viewers (like remarkable) which display the text and the rendered version simultaneously
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When you want a lighter weight, is that because you want less commands or disk size or memory use ?
Looks similar to what you are suggesting ?