[MlMt] External Editor To Compose Messages?

[Kee Hinckley]

On Mar 22, 2014, at 3:38 PM, "Harvey Leff" <hsleff at csupomona.edu> wrote:
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> I found an app, MultiMarkdown Composer, which though not as powerful as a full-blown text editor, does do the markdown easily.

I have it. I'm not a huge fan of it. It does automate some stuff, but it feels a little clunky and I do a lot of bullet and number lists, which it doesn't do a great job with. I _am_ a fan of its backend markdown processor though.

I prefer Notebooks for editing Markdown. But part of that is because I also use it on the iPhone and iPad and it does a wonderful job of synchronizing transparently via dropbox. You don't have to worry about whether you are online or off, it takes care of it all. Ironically, _their_ markdown backend is a little weak, but it's fine. It just doesn't support back quotes for code fencing.


You may have some issues with multimarkdown and MailMate wrt how they handle new lines. The markdown spec says that two separate lines that are adjacent (no blank line between them) are treated as part of a paragraph and can be reflowed. MailMate respects the new like and keeps it, because that's what people are used to in email. Multimarkdown doesn't do that. NoteBooks defaults to the same as MailMate, but it's a preference that can be changed.