Previewing Markdown Files with Marked and Vim
I’ve been tinkering with Vimwiki again. It happens.
While editing Markdown files, I often want to see a preview of the file as HTML. This is where Brett Terpstra’s Marked comes in handy.
I didn’t know the best way to start previewing a file directly from Vim to Marked. A quick search turned up this post by Rob Allen showing how to use Vim’s make command to open the current file in Marked.
It’s easy. In ~/.vim/ftplugin/markdown.vim, I added the following line…
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Now, when editing any Markdown file I just type :make and that file opens in Marked. Neat.