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satyagraha / gfm_viewer

An Eclipse plugin providing an accurate view of GitHub Flavored Markdown (.md) files
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GFMV 2.0 #48

Open paulvi opened 10 years ago

paulvi commented 10 years ago

Though contrary to #37 , here is new idea that worth 2.0 as it would have distinctive difference.

In my use case with Node.js, where almost all documentation is README.md coming from GitHub. I usually double-click to open editor. And then if Markdown markup is used a lot I want to switch to GFMV. That is actually not so quick, as by default the View will appear on area below, that is small. The better place is Editor area, or half of Editor area, for example in #29 But I think most users even don't know that they can drag-an-drop the View around. (TODO GFMV should suggest that)

But I think, the most convenient would be [detachable] tab inside Markdown Editor, like Preview in HTML Editor.

I am not sure if it is possible in Eclipse 4 to have Part that can be inside tab and as View/Editor.

paulvi commented 10 years ago

I got simpler idea, is there Eclipse 4.x option to open a View in Editor area?

paulvi commented 10 years ago

The idea is already implemented in https://github.com/nicoulaj/idea-markdown

That is based on https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown

paulvi commented 10 years ago

Alternatively, maybe just new Markdown Editor based on pegdown would do.

Eclipse Markdownm Editor by Daniel Winterstein is based on MakdownJ library that is still for long time. https://github.com/myabc/markdownj Though there is some hope for its revival.