Comment by loeg
6 years ago
I also mostly edit Markdown in 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.
There's a bunch of command line tools and libraries implementing a variety of incompatible supersets of markdown.
Anyway, you can write Markdown-style plaintext documents without trying to conform to Markdown. The point of markdown is to be able to render those straightforward documents as pretty web pages without the degree of uglifying and boilerplate markup that HTML requires.
> 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
You can preview .md content using a plugin! I use this in VS Code, https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bierner....
> I hate that I have no idea how it will render on Github or wherever
Stick to PDF then since otherwise you have little to no idea how something else will render on the end user's device.