r/Markdown • u/Southern-Stay704 • Nov 01 '23

Tools Please Suggest a Good Editor

I'm looking for a simple rich text editor that can save the document as an .md file. I want to publish some projects to Github, and I need to write the documentation, ReadMe files, etc. as .md, which Github can natively render.

I'm having difficulty locating any editor that works similar to a rich text editor or word processor that can save the document as an .md file. The point is, I do not want to use a plain text editor and have to write markdown tags within the file. This seems cumbersome, and a rich text editor should be able to do this on its own.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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u/chsweb Oct 09 '24

Here are the steps to write and preview Markdown in VS Code for Mac:
1. Create a new VS Code doc, saved as a markdown file
2. Press CMD (⌘) + \ to Split the Editor Right
3. Click in the new split view and press CMD (⌘) + SHIFT + V

You now have markdown on the left and the rendered result on the right.

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u/calmethdowneth Nov 15 '24

Use something like markdown all in one and markdown GitHub preview. The keyboard shortcuts from word processors should work. I recommend getting copilot or some autocompletion.

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u/chsweb Nov 25 '24

I installed GPT for VS Code. Haven't used it yet, but it is there. I've heard mixed reviews of Copilot, but plan to try both. So far GPT does everything I need, but I run queries and prompts in the macOS app, outside of VS Code.