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I wanted some recommendations on the best FOSS GUI Markdown editors. My current one is MarkText, so any good equivalent alternatives to it ?

Thanks in advance👌

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[-] klu9@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also using MarkText & also interested in this.

Ideally I'd like something like a Markdown word processor with toolbar & buttons to do things:

to tide me over until I learn the shortcuts
to overcome shortcuts that don't work on my keyboard (MarkText at least offers a GUI way to remap shortcuts. Typora had 80% broken shortcuts & expected me to hack a JSON to fix their shit. And what passed for instructions on that didn't work.)

[-] infeeeee@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

I switched to Apostrophe from MarkText: https://apps.gnome.org/en/Apostrophe/

It's not as WYSIWYG as MarkText, but close enough. It has buttons, but it wasn't a requirement for me. I use (and love) Gnome, and wanted something gtk based to blend in my DE.

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