GUI Markdown editor

Very excited to announce that a new experimental feature has been added to WikiPack, a GUI Markdown editor.

It’s brand spanking new, and currently only has toolbar buttons for a few basic editing functions, but I’d like to get it into people’s hands to play with and find out what you think.

Couple of things I didn’t mention in the video:

• Formatting text with bold, and italics:
  • You can hit the keyboard shortcut as you’re typing to insert the formatting characters and place the cursor in between them
  • You can then type the text that you wish to format
  • You don’t have to type the text first, select it, and then apply the formatting.
• QuickCursor integration
  • The usual means of invoking QuickCursor doesn't capture the Markdown text; the editor window comes up empty
  • Before invoking QuickCursor, use your standard select-all keyboard shortcut (CMD/CTRL-A) and then invoke QuickCursor

iOS - a bit disappointed

I was really excited about getting the GUI editing features on iOS, because I personally use WikiPack on my iPad quite a bit, but unfortunately it doesn’t quite work as I was hoping.

Some of the toolbar buttons work, like the heading button, and the link/image buttons, but the formatting buttons are another story.

The problem is that the GUI editor is overriding the iOS text selection mechanism, so you can’t select words or position the cursor.

I’m disappointed about that, but will be working on finding a solution.