anekos / mkdpreview-vim

Markdown previewer for vimmer.

MkdPreview

Markdown Previewer for Vimmer.

Introduction

Vim can't dispaly characters which have them glyphs for each like web browser. So unfortunately, vimmer can't preview markdown text over editing on terminal. This is a GUI application which can display preview of markdown. This plugin support:

• Markdown
• reStructuredText
• Textile

Installation

Just simple! Copy or git-clone mkdpreview-vim into your ~/.vim/bundle.

# cd /path/to/your/.vimrc/bundle
# git clone https://github.com/mattn/mkdpreview-vim

This require following third party modules or vim plugins.

• python (2.7 or later) http://python.org/
• PyQt4 http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
• Markdown in Python http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/
• curl command http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/
• webapi-vim http://github.com/mattn/webapi-vim

Usage

:MkdPreview!

If you have previewer already, Just type:

:MkdPreview

:MkdPreview! command install BufWritePost hook for current buffer. Then preview will be updated just to do :w.

Screenshot

Author

Yasuhiro Matsumoto [e-mail]