On GitHub, several projects have README.md
files. It seems like a simple format file to express text and pictures.
I guess there is an editor or syntax explanation somewhere.
Where can I find an introduction to .md
files?
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On GitHub, several projects have I guess there is an editor or syntax explanation somewhere. Where can I find an introduction to | |||
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The extensions You can edit the Since it is a text file, Notepad (Windows), TextEdit (Mac) or any other text editor can be used to edit and modify it. Specialized editors exist that automatically parse the markdown as you type it and generate a preview, while others apply various syntax coloring and decorations to the displayed text. In both cases though, the saved file is still a readable text file. If you want to create an | ||||||||||||||||
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If you are looking for an editor, I suggest you use http://dillinger.io/. It is a simple browser-based text editor that can render Markdown on the fly. However, if you prefer an app, and you are using OS X, you could try Mou. It is quite good and full of examples. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Github's Atom text editor has a live-preview mode for markdown files. The keyboard shortcut is
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Extension '.md' refers to Markdown files. If you don't want to install an app to read them in that format, you can simply use TextEdit or Xcode itself to open it on Mac. On any other OS, you should be able to open it using any text editor, though as expected, you will not see it in Markdown format. | ||||
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Yup, just GitHub flavored Markdown. Including a README file in your repository will help others quickly determine what it's about and how to install it. Very helpful to include in your repos. | ||||||||
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Stack Edit is an online markdown editor with the ability to save to Google Drive and DropBox. | ||
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Markdown is just a text file which optionally has You can use any text editor for markdown. If you are Some of the online markdown editor | ||
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BBEdit will also display MD on the mac. and here is a quicklook plugin to display them when you preview them. | |||
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markable.in is a very nice online tool for editing Markdown syntax | ||
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There is an ongoing effort to standardize Markdown and as of now, this is probably the best place to learn about markdown: | ||
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extension instead, though it's so awfully long... – endolith May 22 '12 at 19:30markdown
: blog.wax-o.com/2014/04/…. You should try to write markdown with a way to live visualizing the result (with an application like mouapp.com). Did you know that stackoverflow post and comment syntax is based on markdown ? :) stackoverflow.com/editing-help – fabien Jul 4 '14 at 10:07