HAhamid914·Sep 25, 2024Submission
Iamcco/Markdown-preview.nvim: Markdown preview plugin for (neo)Vim
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markdown-preview.nvim
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iamcco / markdown-preview.nvim
markdown-preview.nvim
markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim
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markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sources> neither of them [vim, emacs] have a graphical user interface, and they are completely incapable of doing things like showing images or, for example, a Markdown preview (which by the way you can open in Pulsar by pressing Ctrl+Shift+M).
You can:
- See images in neovim: https://github.com/edluffy/hologram.nvim
- preview markdown: https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
- have a “graphical” user interface: https://github.com/neovide/neovide
- have a GUI written in JavaScript: https://github.com/smolck/uivonim
You can’t put electron in the terminal, though, so it seems that pulsar lacks features that neovim has, while neovim does not lack any feature that pulsar has.
In Pulsar, the best code editor since Atomhttps://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim works for me.
In A cross-platform Markdown editor focused on speed and usabilityI like Typora but I am a vim tragic so I have found a 50/50 vertical split with vim in one window and a chrome window using https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim to be my current favourite for editing. I also use https://github.com/mzlogin/vim-markdown-toc which live updates a table of contents.
This plugin is great as it scrolls with you and live updates based on the content of the buffer, no need to save to reload. Normally I would not advocate for a vim / terminal solution as I find I'd normally rather a GUI, but these two plugins are so good that if you already have a good .vimrc then its pretty seamless to use this solution.
In Typora 1.0Vim displays plaintext, so you cannot use it to preview markdown as HTML. However, you can use a plugin such as "markdown-preview" [0] to preview markdown in your browser.
0: https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
In GhostWriter is a distraction free Markdown editorI use https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim with Neovim (should work with vim >=8 as well)
It gives you live preview in browser. It also scrolls automatically to the part your vim cursor is at.
In Personal Wiki for Vim> I hate that I have no idea how it will render on Github or wherever without actually pushing a test commit out, or using Github's interactive UI + copypaste to preview.
I used to do this a lot, until I discovered Markdown Preview https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
In Things Markdown got wrongThere is a vim plugin [1] that automatically renders markdown in your browser with synchronised scrolling. It felt like magic when I first used it.
[1] https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim
In Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability