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MDPad Viewer

Simple Markdown Notepad like for Windows

MDPad Viewer and Editor is a simple basic viewer and editor for markdown text files.

The main goal is to have an editor that launches blazingly fast, and also be used as markdown viewer.

Originally it was written in Delphi, but now it has been ported to Lazarus Object Pascal.

Features

• Minimal editor, resembling Notepad interface.
• Native binary, starts fast on cold boot.
• Integrates IE viewer or HTMLViewer on Linux and MacOSX.
• Lightweight, binary files less than 5MB.
• Exports to HTML.
• Sync text editor with preview in real time.
• Canvas preview (Markdown4D), table of contents, light/dark themes.
• Formatting bar, link/image/table dialogs and Smart Enter for lists.
• Command line options (--help); a markdown file argument opens as a reader.
• Optional update check against the GitHub releases (at most once a day and silent; Help > Check for updates asks, Preferences > Check for updates automatically turns it off).
• About window with the credits and the licenses of the bundled libraries (the full notices are in THIRDPARTY.md).

TODO

• Export to PDF
• Offers syntax highlight, snippets and code completion.