← Back to context Comment by happyopossum 2 days ago Your plain text editor is the markdown reader. That’s the point. 6 comments happyopossum Reply nullhole 2 days ago It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already. matijsvzuijlen 1 day ago I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv jdechko 2 days ago If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files.https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown VerifiedReports 13 hours ago Then that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there? nacozarina 1 day ago and it looks like poo, that’s the other point VerifiedReports 13 hours ago Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!"Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?
nullhole 2 days ago It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already. matijsvzuijlen 1 day ago I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv jdechko 2 days ago If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files.https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
jdechko 2 days ago If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files.https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
VerifiedReports 13 hours ago Then that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there?
nacozarina 1 day ago and it looks like poo, that’s the other point VerifiedReports 13 hours ago Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!"Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?
VerifiedReports 13 hours ago Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!"Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?
It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already.
I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv
If you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files.
https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
Then that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there?
and it looks like poo, that’s the other point
Exactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!"
Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?