![]() Ulysses is a native macOS app, with iOS support too. Only allows opening folders/multiple files if you use the iCloud library It is not as customizable, but serves as a solid markdown editor. IA Writer is a paid app and has many great features such as focus mode and iCloud sync. Supports ‘plugins’ via CSS and JavaScript ‘Real Preview’ to preview the document on different websites LightPaper is another paid app with heaps of features including support for Jekyll front matter, MathJax support and a menubar app for quick note taking. ProsĮxtensive support for themeing, including community created themes It’s open source and supports many cool features such as autocomplete and plugins. MacDown is the classic modern markdown editor for macOS. Supports theming and allows custom themes Occassionally when editing inline LaTeX, the cursor dissapears or jumps around. ![]() The only downside is that there is no split view rendering support. Typora is a super minimal markdown editor and is still in Beta at time of writing. Below are my findings, the pros/cons of each and how well the app matched my criteria (out of 6). Taking this crieteria, I set out to find the perfect markdown editor (if only it existed). Preferably support both split view rendering, and inline rendering/editingĮach point starting with “Must”, weighs 1 point, each point starting with “Preferably” weighs half a point.Preferably support opening folders, or workspaces.Preferably be able to export to other formats (HTML, RTF, LaTeX).Must support code blocks and syntax highlighting.Must support LaTeX (or a math subset of LaTeX).I’ve been looking for the perfect one for a while now, but still haven’t found it. There are dozens of markdown editing apps out there for macOS, each with different features, and pros and cons. I find it much easier to write in markdown rather than Microsoft Word, pure LaTeX, plain text or rich text.īeing able to convert markdown into PDF, HTML and plenty other formats is a huge benefit, not to mention that many websites like Github support it. The image caching bug to resolve the flashing bug.I’ve recently been writing a lot of documents in markdown - on this blog, for uni notes and for general writing. Supposedly, a planĮxists to migrate to WKWebView, which would hopefully resolve both of The image caching bug to resolve the flashing bug. Image issue, so I believe it would be appropriate to temporarily regress However, the flashing issue appears to be bothering more people than the Regress the issue regarding images being persistently cached. ![]() Reverting the changes for MacDownApp#747 resolves the flashing issue, but does ![]() This results in a momentary flash of empty content if one is typing Things like stylesheets and the base html document loaded from disk. Unfortunately, perhaps due to some underlying changes to WebKit/WebView,ĭisabling caching will also disable caching for all sorts of other So that if images referenced in the markdown document are changed onĭisk, their changes are reflected in the preview pane. I hope that somebody finds value in these observations.įor issue MacDownApp#747, a change was introduced that uses private API to disableĬaching on the preview pane's web view. The only lesson I can see from this is that more powerful graphics hardware may ameliorate this issue. Looking at them, the difference is almost certainly the NVIDIA GeForce GT on my personal Macbook my work Macbook is the same or marginally better on the other details. Here are the details for my work MacBook: Here are the details for my personal MacBook: Both Macbooks have MacDown version 0.7.3.Īfter examining the behavior of MacDown on my personal MacBook more carefully, it appears that the rerender-and-scroll is happening there, too, but that it happens so quickly that it's a non-annoying flicker, whereas it is slower and much more intrusive on my work MacBook. As it happens, I also have a personal MacBook (MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)) that has been macOS Catalina for a little over a year, and I didn't recall seeing this problem there even tho' I use MacDown on a daily basis. I came across this issue because my work MacBook (MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)) was just upgraded from High Sierra to Catalina today and the flashing problem is bugging the living foo out of me.
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