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Okay time

I'm looking for a Markdown VIEWER that is open source and reasonably cross platform.

Does such a thing exist?

I don't want to convert to HTML and then view.

I don't want a web app.

I do want:
- To open markdown files
- To have those files render correctly
- Links to open in another application (that can be user specified)
- images to either actually embed or appear as links. Don't care, either is fine.

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@ajroach42 The only one I’m thinking of is Mac-specific (it’s MacDown). If you know of something similar (either cross-platform or Mac) for #Textile, I’d appreciate knowing of it. I’ve heard that textile is like a better-designed MD, but I can’t find any editors with a live preview.

@ajroach42 Would Markdown editor with a viewer/preview component also work or does it have to be only/mainly a viewer?

@minx an editor with a good preview component would be a consolation prize here.

Like, it is better than nothing, but not what I'm after, you know?

@ajroach42 Makes sense.

For editor/viewer I tried Typora and Remarkable and both seemed fine.

Remarkable works on Windows and Linux and does has a seperate windowareas for editing and livepreview.

Typora only has a single window but does a kinda WYSISWG thing where the layout is shown in the same window you write it in. It runs on Windows, Linux and has a beta for Mac.

@minx Typora is in beta everywhere, and allegedly won't be free after the beta.

It's what I am using right now, but I am not thrilled about it.

(Guess it's time to write my own.)

@ajroach42 for what it's worth, i think atom (the github produced editor) is actually pretty good at this. my SO and her coworkers use it to edit large chunks of tutorial content in fairly complex markdown.

@ajroach42 (sorry, i missed the "viewer only" requirement. for that, i've tended to just build a little pipeline that does the conversion and loads in-browser.)

@brennen sure. But it's also an editor rather than a viewer, requires a plugin to preview markdown, and is written in JavaScript.

Ideally, I'm looking for something that would run on a 486 or so. You know?

@ajroach42 yeah. in that situation, i'm pretty sure i would just pipe the output of Text::Markdown::Discount to lynx or something. :\

@brennen pandoc markdown to HTML works pretty well, if a bit slowly, on underpowered machines.

I take the output of that and feed it in to w3m or links2 -g and that works pretty well.

(I even have it bundled up as an alias. readmd)

@aldersprig I don't understand what this thing is.

I googled it.

It looks like A dream weaver competitor from the late 90s?

I'll continue to explore.