Better preview

[FezVrasta]

I'd love to have a better way to see the formatted markdown text. My idea is to show the markdown code only for few rows near the active row, and show the rest as formatted text.

I think this mockup gives the idea better than my words:

Thanks.

[gruehle]

@FezVrasta thanks for the feedback! I like your proposal, but that would definitely be a lot of work. I don't have time for this, but if you'd like to take a shot at it, I'd be interested in seeing a pull request.

It may be better to just write your own extension based on hallo.js. That would be a full WYSIWYG editor, rather than a hybrid text editor/preview.

[FezVrasta]

Unfortunately I'm following a lot of projects in these months, but I would love to work on it when I'll have some free time. If someone is interested in start the project I could help when I have some free hour.

[gruehle]

Sounds good. In the meantime, I'll leave this issue open to see if anyone else wants to pitch in.

[drgomesp]

Any updates on this?

It would be awesome to also be able to customize the columns length of the preview!

[McSodbrenner]

Some time ago I started developing something like that as a simple standalone version. But at the moment I have an other project that needs my time so I have no time to push it. But maybe there are some people which like to contribute and help? https://github.com/McSodbrenner/markdown-inline-editor

Here is a preview: https://rawgit.com/McSodbrenner/markdown-inline-editor/master/index.htm

As you can see there are some bugs, eg. you cannot always leave a block with the down key.