Textile and Markdown preview

[rcarmo]

...as seen in other forks. I'm especially fond of the temporary preview window and the way I can switch between Textile-formatted notes (where tables can be managed very easily) and Markdown-formatted notes.

[scrod]

I'm planning something like this already, and if it doesn't end up in NV I'll probably just include the existing functionality from other forks.

There's also a related issue here:
#8

Oh, but just one question:

How does being able to see a Markdown-rendered preview assist with the process of taking and finding notes? Just curious.

[rcarmo]

Thanks. You might want to look into alternate Textile and Markdown engines, though - the Perl ones used aren't that complete.

On 10/04/2011, at 00:20, scrodreply@reply.github.com wrote:

I'm planning something like this already, and if it doesn't end up in NV I'll probably just include the existing functionality from other forks.

There's also a related issue here:
#8

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#201 (comment)

[iandol]

scrod: I think the Markdown (or multimarkdown) and textile support isn't so helpful for finding or taking notes, but we do also read them later, and that formatting makes the notes more readable and the program generally more flexible (users may be storing clips of text for more structured writing, need to export formatted lists and so on).

[ghost]

scrod: For me, my "notes" are often ideas (even full drafts) for blog posts, and with a Markdown preview, I can write and preview a post, from start to finish, entirely within NV, without having to use any other program.

[Dilnu]

Trying to merge the changes from the NValt fork back into the main application would address most markdown based complaints. Though perhaps those people could use NVAlt instead.

[galderz]

@Aranittara, the only reason I've started using nvAlt instead of nv is cos of the markdown preview function. I mix a lot of code and text and markdown for that is awesome. The preview makes things a lot clearer for me. I hope nv incorporates it so that people can focus their efforts on the same project.