Hey there,
Sam wrote:
I have used the markdown plugin but it just provides a view function by converting the markdown to html and displaying it. If you are going to use markdown for a major project, I would suggest a dedicated markdown editor lilke Marktext or Typora (my own favorite).
Thanks for the recommendations, but I just dabble in Markdown when I contribute to other projects in small ways, so all I needed was a local viewer and the plug-in gave me that. I'm also all about doing any kind of coding and markup in Geany (everything about it just feels right), so having the viewer as a plug-in gave me the best of both worlds.
Now that I use Kubuntu 22.04 LTS, the plug-in is no longer needed, so my current approach is to create this "View" command inside of the "Markdown commands" section of Geany's "Set Build Commands" interface:
ebook-viewer "%f"
That way, I can write and edit Markdown in Geany and click Geany's Compile button in the toolbar any time I want to see the result.