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Is there any text editor with support for Markdown (formatting syntax used by Ask Ubuntu) which can be used to write questions or answers while you are offline?

Rohan 'HEXcube' Villoth
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Anwar
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  • The overkill option, as always, is emacs. `markdown-mode` works well, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone had built an entire asynchronous Stack Exchange client in emacs. – Darael Nov 15 '15 at 15:12

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Try Retext which supports markdown. Retext has been in Ubuntu since 12.04 precise. For earlier Ubuntu releases, or if you want a more recent version of Retext, get it from the project home page or from a PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mitya57/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install retext

This will install Retext.

If you want a gedit plugin with markdown support:

  1. Download this and extract the file in ~/Download directory.

  2. Open a terminal, cd to the ~/Downloads/gedit-markdown-master directory and run ./gedit-markdown.sh install.

  3. Restart Gedit and you have a markdown plugin, enable it and enjoy ! .

Note: You can anytime preview markdown by entering Ctrl+Alt+M.

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zetah
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  • I don't know of such. You can also use your favorite text editor with some command line markup tool (i.e. [python markdown](http://freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Command_Line)) or have a look at this: [Markdown for the Gedit](http://blog.philippklaus.de/2011/06/markdown-for-the-gedit-text-editor-on-ubuntu-11-04/) – zetah May 13 '12 at 14:46
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    Thanks for the info, I have edited the answer to include more things and I think, I can accept this. – Anwar May 13 '12 at 15:26
  • @zetah. The Gedit download url is 404. – Parto Jul 02 '14 at 06:38
  • @Parto, try here: http://www.jpfleury.net/en/software/gedit-markdown.php (did not test it, just found by Google) – zetah Jul 02 '14 at 12:10
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You can try Retext or Haroopad (both let you edit your markdown code and preview it)

Retext

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Remarkable

Remarkable Main Screenshot

Remarkable is a fully featured markdown editor with the following features:

Remarkable with Dark GTK3 Theme

Homepage: Remarkable App
Source Repo: Remarkable on GitHub
License: Open Source under MIT License
Download: Remarkable's Download page provides deb package for Ubuntu

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Atom has built-in support for Markdown editing;

You can hit SHIFT+CTRL+M at any time to toggle the Markdown preview window:

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