#Macdown integring figure update#

It’s a different key to show the preview pane than to hide it, which…shouldn’t this be a toggle? For now I’ve turned off the auto-updating, and just hit Command+R to update the preview.In contrast the IA Writer preview pane is rock solid. If you type fast it turns into a strobing/flickering mess. The preview pane defaults to updating as you type, and it flashes when updating, which is very distracting.After that it behaved more like I was used to in other programs. I had to select the shortcut text and then MacDown asked whether it wanted me to replace text automatically. For example, I have a shortcut for the YAML front matter block mapped to post. The MacOS-level text replacements didn’t seem to work at first.(If you’re working in IA Writer and running an Eleventy local server which watches for changes, you can see it re-building frequently.) It seems to be much less aggressive with auto-saving, compared to IA Writer.IA Writer is very opinionated in this respect, giving you a very limited choice of three (!) custom-designed fonts. I like that I can choose my editor typeface.To be fair, since I shifted to a folder-based structure for my blog I’m usually working with just a single index.md file anyway, so this is not that big a deal unless I need to search across all my posts. MacDown feels closer to Byword than Ulysses or IA Writer - it’s very single-file focused there’s no folder tray or anything like that.(For context: I also use nvALT and Byword a lot for quick, single-file Markdown edits.) Initial observations # I’ve been evaluating IA Writer this week after running into some constraints with Ulysses, but I’m also quite partial to projects that are labors of love-MacDown apparently came to life after Mou ceased development. Following up on my text editor musings from my website launch post, Nicolas Hoizey recommended MacDown, an open-source Markdown editor from Tzu-ping Chung.

Macdown integring figure