MarkEdit: a TextEdit that knows Markdown

Apple may never give us this answer to a long-standing itch; but, fortunately, someone else did.We macOS users have long been familiar with using Apple’s included TextEdit app for, as the name suggests, editing plain-text files. However, we macOS users who also like using Markdown have found TextEdit lacking — it can open and edit such files, of course, but it can’t do Markdown-ish things in them — and wished Apple would make it Markdown-savvy. While there’s no indication Apple ever intends to do that, the good news is that there now is a FOSS app, MarkEdit, which is essentially TextEdit that speaks Markdown. And that may well be good enough. The vast majority of my Markdown-editing endeavors over the last few years, especially for this website, have been spent in iA Writer, and I suspect that will continue to be the case long-term.1 That said, I wrote this post mostly in MarkEdit, and found the experience to be a good one. Other than its ability to be “Markdown-savvy TextEdit,”…