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I have seen this feature at the typora MD client. Would be nice when you can add the same functionality as an option for the user.

Preview you can find here: https://typora.io

Let me agree that Pine could be hugely better if it eliminated the dual-pane editor-preview mode. Let the user edit directly in the preview pane - in single-pane WYSIWYG mode. Hide the Markdown formatting and show rendered text except directly where the user is typing.

F3000 is right. Dual-pane Markdown editing wastes a lot of screen space. And toggling between editing and previewing is what's weak this week.

And provide a keystroke for those times when you just have to edit the raw Markdown to fix some nagging formatting issue.

A useful open source reference for single-pane editing is Mark Text.

Both apps linked are written in JavaScript. Typora uses a WebView for the entire app, and Mark Text uses Electron. I don't like Electron and Pine is written in Swift. What you are asking is a very complex feature to implement in Swift without using a WebView.

Besides, I prefer writing with a split pane layout. Pine is open source, so feel free to open a pull request if you really want this feature. In the meantime, this feature request will be put in the very, very low priority column so to speak.