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Pine for Mac

A lightweight markdown editor (beta).

Free
In English
Version 0.0.9
4.2
Based on 4 user rates

Pine overview

Pine is lightweight macOS markdown editor.

It is a document based application, and aims to follow Apple's Human Interface Guidelines

Features:
  • Themetable
  • Math support (LaTeX subset)
  • GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • GitHub Emoji support
  • LaTeX, Markdown and HTML autocomplete
  • Local image support
  • Switchable split view (horizontal and vertical split)
  • Full screen support
  • Tab support
  • Folder support
  • Ability to create custom .css themes
  • Ability to share .md files
  • Syntax highlighting for source and preview
  • Autosaving
  • Version control and history recovery
  • Markdown shortcuts (keyboard and Touch Bar shortcuts)
  • Auto pair markdown tags
  • Enable/disable markdown extensions
  • Custom font
  • Word count

Note: Pine is still in its very early stages, so if you encounter any bugs or have a feature request please raise an issue!

What’s new in version 0.0.9

Version 0.0.9:
New features:
  • Autocomplete support for LaTeX, HTML and markdown with preferences to disable each
  • Support for WikiLink ([[Description|./path/to/note.md]]) markdown extensions
  • RTL writing direction support in editor and preview
  • Preference to show invisible characters
  • Preference to show a toolbar on the window
  • Preference to scroll past end of editor
  • Preferences to sync scroll position between editor and preview
  • 9 new themes:
    • a11y-dark
    • a11y-light
    • an-old-hope
    • gml
    • isbl-editor-dark
    • isbl-editor-light
    • lightfair
    • nord
    • shades-of-purple
Fixed:
  • Some themes having incorrect colors
  • Open -a not working at times
  • Set a max width for
  • Indented markdown lists not getting syntax highlighted
  • Words breaking on any character, now breaking on words
  • Vertical scrollbar not showing in preferences when scrolled
Other:
  • Refactored sidebar and tabs
  • Now using custom Highlightr fork
  • library licenses to the 'About' window
  • new UI tests

Pine for Mac

Free
In English
Version 0.0.9
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4.2

(3 Reviews of Pine)

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Ptk3
Ptk3
Jul 26 2019
0.0.9
0.0
Jul 26 2019
0.0
Version: 0.0.9
Interesting but there are some incoherence in the interface behavior (e. g. creating new file make the actual file disappear, you don't know where…). Hope it will be improved…
Xenos
Xenos
Jun 10 2019
0.0.9
5.0
Jun 10 2019
5.0
Version: 0.0.9
After a rather accidental first use, I have to say that this program surprised me very much. After further testing, I will again post new impressions.
rainweasser
rainweasser
Mar 27 2019
0.0.4
5.0
Mar 27 2019
5.0
Version: 0.0.4
This is now at version 0.0.9 and has been renamed to Pine. PLease update this listing accordingly: https://github.com/lukakerr/pine/releases
Xenos
Xenos
Jun 10 2019
5.0
Jun 10 2019
5.0
Version: null
sllsr
sllsr
Mar 30 2019
5.0
Mar 30 2019
5.0
Version: null
rainweasser
rainweasser
Mar 27 2019
5.0
Mar 27 2019
5.0
Version: null
ygfz
ygfz
Feb 19 2019
5.0
Feb 19 2019
5.0
Version: null