MDE

Lightweight markdown editor. Desktop app + browser version.

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Installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Releases

Features

• Dual mode — raw markdown with syntax highlighting, or WYSIWYG visual editing (Ctrl+E to toggle)
• Tabs — multiple documents, undo/scroll position preserved per tab
• Minimap — document overview sidebar
• Formatting toolbar — bold, italic, headings, links, lists, code blocks
• File associations — double-click .md files to open in MDE
• Single instance — new files open as tabs, not new windows
• Settings — word wrap, font size, persisted across sessions
• Drag and drop — drop .md files onto the window

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+N	New tab
Ctrl+O	Open file
Ctrl+S	Save
Ctrl+Shift+S	Save as
Ctrl+W	Close tab
Ctrl+E	Toggle raw/visual mode
Ctrl+B	Bold
Ctrl+I	Italic
Ctrl+K	Insert link
Ctrl+1–4	Heading 1–4
Ctrl+= / Ctrl+-	Font size
Ctrl+Alt+W	Toggle word wrap

Tech Stack

• Tauri 2 — Rust backend, ~13 MB binary
• React + TypeScript
• CodeMirror 6 — raw editor with markdown highlighting
• Milkdown (Crepe) — WYSIWYG editor
• Tailwind CSS

Build

npm install
npm run tauri build      # desktop installer
npm run build:web        # static site → dist-web/

Requires Node.js 20+ and Rust.

License

MIT