casmarks.blogg.se - Macdown how to use

MacDown’s startup screen touts Jekyll front matter support, which presumably would support Eleventy’s YAML front matter. The preview pane will render images wrapped in but content is not displayed.

Wish that were sticky to however I set it last.

Even if you hide the preview pane, it’ll show up whenever you open a new document.

It’s a different key to show the preview pane than to hide it, which…shouldn’t this be a toggle? For now I’ve turned off the auto-updating, and just hit Command+R to update the preview.

In contrast the IA Writer preview pane is rock solid. If you type fast it turns into a strobing/flickering mess.

The preview pane defaults to updating as you type, and it flashes when updating, which is very distracting.

After that it behaved more like I was used to in other programs. I had to select the shortcut text and then MacDown asked whether it wanted me to replace text automatically. For example, I have a shortcut for the YAML front matter block mapped to post.

The MacOS-level text replacements didn’t seem to work at first.

(If you’re working in IA Writer and running an Eleventy local server which watches for changes, you can see it re-building frequently.)

It seems to be much less aggressive with auto-saving, compared to IA Writer.IA Writer is very opinionated in this respect, giving you a very limited choice of three (!) custom-designed fonts.

I like that I can choose my editor typeface.To be fair, since I shifted to a folder-based structure for my blog I’m usually working with just a single index.md file anyway, so this is not that big a deal unless I need to search across all my posts. MacDown feels closer to Byword than Ulysses or IA Writer - it’s very single-file focused there’s no folder tray or anything like that.(For context: I also use nvALT and Byword a lot for quick, single-file Markdown edits.) Initial observations # I’ve been evaluating IA Writer this week after running into some constraints with Ulysses, but I’m also quite partial to projects that are labors of love-MacDown apparently came to life after Mou ceased development. Following up on my text editor musings from my website launch post, Nicolas Hoizey recommended MacDown, an open-source Markdown editor from Tzu-ping Chung.