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Neovim

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Neovim is a modal text editor forked off of Vim in 2014. Being modal means that you do not simply type text on screen, but the behavior and functionality of the editor changes entirely depending on the mode.

The most common and most used mode, the "normal mode" for Neovim is to essentially turn your keyboard in to hotkeys with which you can navigate and manipulate text. Several modes exist, but two other most common ones are "insert mode" where you type in text directly as if it was a traditional text editor, and "visual mode" where you select text.

Neovim seeks to enable further community participation in its development and to make drastic changes without turning it in to something that is "not Vim". Neovim also seeks to enable embedding the editor within GUI applications.

The Neovim logo by Jason Long is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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Hey all. I recently made the jump to using neovim as my full-time editor of choice using a modified version of LazyVim. I'm looking for a plugin that shows Markdown preview (preferably within a buffer and not by opening a browser page, if that's possible). This is primarily for taking notes at work, although I don't need the most heavyweight note taking app (for that I usually use Notion, which unfortunately doesn't seem to have a read-write neovim plugin). Do you have any recommendations?

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

While not a plugin, I like to use glow for viewing markdown files.

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

As @[email protected] mentioned, glow is rad. There’s this plug-in https://github.com/ellisonleao/glow.nvim which is alright

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

peek.nvim should do what you like. I found it however not so straightforward to get it running.

Please share if you find something better which doesn't need a browser.

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

Thanks! I'll give peek a try and report back.

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

Alright, tried to give it a go but I encountered the same build issues that are filling up the issues tracker. I tried making the same changes locally that are in the PR and that didn't work. Given that it seems like this isn't being maintained, and relies on deno which I guess is making breaking API changes, I'm going to pass on peek.