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Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
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Formatting preview for Markdown #1603

Closed TS6ix2GaH3q679h5 closed 3 months ago

TS6ix2GaH3q679h5 commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When writing a markdown file, I need some way to preview/view the formatted text, so that I can copy it and paste it into a word processor with all markdown-generated formatting intact. In other words, for example, all of the markdown headings (#, ##, ###) should appear, and be copy-able, so that I can paste into word processor and it will appear with headings, bold, etc.

For example, TextMate has this feature in a pop-up window:

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Describe the solution you'd like An option in the menus to view the markdown in a formatted way. Like the image above, where the formatting appears in a pop-up window. Or some sort of toggle switch to toggle between "markdown syntax" and "formatted view". Something that lets me copy the document to clipboard and paste to a word processor with formatting intact.

Describe alternatives you've considered I'm just using other editors (TextMate for example).

Additional context Screenshot shows basically what I'm hoping for. Is this possible in CotEditor already and I just have not noticed it?

1024jp commented 3 months ago

CotEditor is not a markdown editor but a general plain text editor. Therefore, it is our policy not to add language-specific features.

ref. #722