![]() ![]() The syntax highlighting is nice but it doesn’t hide the Markdown code like Typora does. The single-pane style is my favorite, though it does support dual panes if you prefer. I am, in fact, writing this article in Caret and have been really happy with it for weeks now while testing. Multiple-cursor editing, front matter support, page break inserts, file browser, Git support, and automatic image posting to Imgur. Things like syntax help and auto-completion and lookups. The feature list comes short of our gold standard WriteMonkey, but the features it does have are quite helpful. I’m leaving a mention in this article for historical reasons, but the app still works if you want to try it out. However, it still has fans hoping the full-featured and beloved program will come back to life. There hasn’t been much GitHub activity in 4 years, there are over 180 open issues, and a tweet by the author that they are not sure it will get any new releases. I have to cut my review of Haroopad short because it appears the project is stalled. It is full-featured, uses split-screens, supports many languages and color highlighting, Vim key-binding, fenced code blocks (with highlighting), GitHub-style syntax, tables, MultiMarkdown (underline, superscript, subscript), audio/video embed, math, and more. Haroopad runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, with a focus on an identical experience across each platform. If you’re on Windows and want a standalone app that’s free, this is for you. WriteMonkey might have been my top editor, if not for the fact that I enjoy having a bit more in the visual styling of the Markdown itself, and I’m not as big into the endless tinkering and advanced features. ![]() In this article, I’ll use “Markdown” or “vanilla Markdown” to refer to the original Markdown spec, and I’ll refer to the names of specific flavors when describing extended features. The Stack Exchange network uses Markdown known as Pagedown, and MarkdownSharp on the server side, with bits of PHP-Markdown thrown in. ![]() Large websites tend to tweak it with additional customizations, and so you’ll also hear names like “Vim-Flavored-Markdown” and “GitHub-Flavored Markdown”. Forks include PHP-Markdown, PageDown, Parsedown, and Pandoc, to name a few. There are many “flavors” (variations or extensions) of Markdown, with varying names, due to the creators not wanting anybody to use the “Markdown” name for their projects. It’s cross-platform, easy to understand, and easy to collaborate on. It is commonly used in modern CMSs, forums, and authoring tools. Markdown has become the standard text markup language on the web. This popular article was updated in 2017, covering the newest Markdown editors for Windows and reviewing how some older ones have fared over time. ![]()
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