It opens up a browser window with a rendered Markdown page, and live updates when a Markdown file changes. This lets you do "split screen text/preview" editing, which is wonderful.
I also enjoy the simplenote.vim plugin. Simplenote is the hosted note taking service run by the team at Automattic/Wordpress. It's not well known that it supports Markdown fully, and also has a way to one-click publish your Markdown posts. The vim plugin lets you edit all your Simplenotes inside vim itself! If you use Simplenote, this is a great plugin.
which lets me type "simplenote" at the command line and get a vim editor that is open on my Simplenote account. Then I markdown away and can preview/publish from the web interface!
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All very good suggestions, especially Goyo for distraction-free writing.
I personally enjoy vim-livedown:
https://github.com/shime/vim-livedown
It opens up a browser window with a rendered Markdown page, and live updates when a Markdown file changes. This lets you do "split screen text/preview" editing, which is wonderful.
I also enjoy the simplenote.vim plugin. Simplenote is the hosted note taking service run by the team at Automattic/Wordpress. It's not well known that it supports Markdown fully, and also has a way to one-click publish your Markdown posts. The vim plugin lets you edit all your Simplenotes inside vim itself! If you use Simplenote, this is a great plugin.
https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim
I also set up a bash alias like this:
which lets me type "simplenote" at the command line and get a vim editor that is open on my Simplenote account. Then I markdown away and can preview/publish from the web interface!