Alternatives to MarkEdit
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. MarkEdit itself: install MarkEdit.
mdq
like jq but for Markdown: find specific elements in a md doc
md4c
C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification
bash-preexec
⚡ preexec and precmd functions for Bash just like Zsh
MarkText
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows
mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like
zsh-autosuggestions
Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh
loki
Like Prometheus, but for logs
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh
Postgres
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, pleas
miller
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON
miniserve
🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in
vis
A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
reveal-md
reveal.js on steroids! Get beautiful reveal.js presentations from any Markdown file
marksman
Write Markdown with code assist and intelligence in the comfort of your favourite editor
zenith
Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage
roswell
intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works
helm-docs
A tool for automatically generating markdown documentation for helm charts
markdown-toc
API and CLI for generating a markdown TOC (table of contents) for a README or any markdown files. Uses Remarkable to parse markdown. Used by NASA/open
httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
rumdl
Fast Markdown linter and formatter written in Rust
inlyne
a GPU powered yet browserless tool to view markdown files in the blink of an eye
deck
deck is a tool for creating deck using Markdown and Google Slides
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than MarkEdit — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
MarkEdit is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.