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What's a good open source Markdown editor that can switch between WYSIWYG and source code? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I often need to convert rich text copied from websites or Word/odt documents to Markdown, and sometimes vice versa. Is there an open source Markdown editor that lets me simultaneously paste in and edit a document both as WYSIWYG and Markdown source code? Preferably side by side.

I've actually been using the Reddit redesign's Markdown editor for this, since it lets me switch between a WYSIWYG text box and a Markdown source code editor, but that's obviously not at all a good option.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Huh? Nearly every editor can do this. For work, I use Visual Studio Code for that, maybe you additionally need a Markdown Extension, but I'm pretty sure it works out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

How about Apostrophe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hedgedoc if hosting is an option.

Also, you might be interested in pandoc for converting docx/odt (...) directly to md.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree: it's great.

Also can use the freely the instance at hackmd.io

[–] BaconSoftware 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obsidian let’s you edit with a preview version next to the source version, or even edit the source inline whilst the rest of the document remains as WYSIWYG.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Obsidian is cool yeah. But it ain't open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh boy a 3 year old post is being put in people's feeds. There needs to be a warning for old posts

[–] lehenry 1 points 1 year ago

I use Joplin which is rather complete, by default it shows wysiwyg, but you can display both.

There are many plug-ins as well, for example to paste Excel/CSV as markdown tables.