Abricotine – WYSIWYM Markdown editor – open source and cross platform

Too bad it's electron. I'm working on a just-for-fun markdown editor using GtkSourceView and GtkWebkit and, despite a slight learning curve getting familiar with gtk, it's been a pleasure to work on. Ugh...electron? Really??

This is cool but it makes me wonder about all of the electron apps that are coming out. Is there something more efficient that could do the same? Why are QT and GTK not nearly as popular?

Is the editor really a problem to solve for Markdown? Philosophically I regard Markdown as a language in the text-only-editor-unimportant family.<p>I recently built a (simple, only works for me) filter for pandoc that allows for formulas in Markdown tables. org-mode features is what Markdown is missing, but without the marriage to the editor.<p>At the same time: an editor like this makes Markdown more accessible for non-hackers, which is always good.

On a related note: I’ve recently started using <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackmd.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackmd.io&#x2F;</a> for markdown. It supports the full gh markdown and more. The best part is the collaborative editing. Big thumbs up to the guys working on the product - I haven’t missed desktop apps for markdown at all. I’m looking forward to trying their slideshow features.<p>Disclosure: I have no affiliation with them :). I’m just a fanboy at this point.

This is an electron app.

I think the way electron apps abound when there are possibly better alternatives is similar to the way markdown abounds in spite of other better &#x27;lightweight&#x27; markup alternatives.. after years of using markdown, I&#x27;ve migrated to asciidoc and couldn&#x27;t be happier that I don&#x27;t have to rely on custom extensions..<p>I guess it&#x27;s a mindshare thing and a learning curve thing.. I guess markdown is good enough for the vast majority of cases.. but when it isn&#x27;t, it becomes a pita..

This looks really awesome! I really wish I could use it as a library and embed it into my SaaS app. Is there a way to extract just the rendering functionality and add it to a website?

Just tested it and it seems really promising. Great work!<p>I wish it could replace the formatting syntax as you type, like Typora [1] does. The document becomes much cleaner to read while still being efficient to write.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typora.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typora.io&#x2F;</a>

Anyone know of a markdown editor that has quick, notational velocity style file search&#x2F;creation and just saves files to the hard disk? (So I can sync the directory via Dropbox or Google drive myself)

Never heard syntax highlighting referred to as &quot;code coloration&quot; before. Looks nice though.

Does anyone know of a similar project for editing mediawiki files?