Markdown and Git UX for writers

[xaur]

To convert more writers to Markdown, Git and GitHub we need to offer them smooth integrated UX.

Required features:

• decent GUI text editor with Markdown support
• "minimally painful" Git integration: fetch, commit, push, see changes, cache credentials
  • ideally: see changes rendered, like GitHub's "Rich Diff"
• right-to-left text support in editing, preview and diff viewer (unlike GitHub, #109)
• Markdown preview

For more advanced operations, find good tools that are safe to recommend: Git GUI, diff/merge tool.

Find good guidelines, tutorials, videos.

Candidates:

feature	Atom	Brackets	vscode
Markdown preview	yes	yes
RTL	no	yes
Git	yes
diff
GitHub

[jholdstock]

vscode should be considered: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown

Really nice integration with git as well, including a nice visual diff tool

[xaur]

Thanks @jholdstock, added to the list.

We tested Atom and it doesn't work with RTL text. In Atom issues people say vscode handles RTL.

[xaur]

Atom, vscode and Brackets don't seem to work with RTL text out of the box. Shame for these hipster editors by large corporations, because the basic Gnome's gedit handles it pretty well! Some things we can try is gedit on Windows and WebStorm from JetBrains (people say PhpStorm works with RTL, so WebStorm should too).