How to Install Minimalist Online Markdown Editor on Arch Linux

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the Minimalist Online Markdown Editor on Arch Linux. The Minimalist Online Markdown Editor is a web-based text editor that allows you to write and preview Markdown documents.

Prerequisites

Before you start, you need to have:

  • Arch Linux installed on your computer
  • A web browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome

Installation

To install the Minimalist Online Markdown Editor on Arch Linux, follow these steps:

  1. Open your web browser and go to http://markdown.pioul.fr/.

  2. Right-click anywhere on the page and select View page source from the context menu.

  3. Locate the following line of code:

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="assets/css/markdown-styles.css">

  4. Copy the URL for the markdown-styles.css file, which should be something like http://markdown.pioul.fr/assets/css/markdown-styles.css.

  5. Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.

  6. Navigate to the directory where you want to download the CSS file using the cd command. For example:

    cd Downloads

  7. Use the wget command to download the markdown-styles.css file. Replace <CSS_FILE_URL> with the URL you copied earlier:

    wget <CSS_FILE_URL>

  8. Install the pandoc package using the following command:

    sudo pacman -S pandoc

  9. Open a text editor such as nano or vim and create a new file with the following contents:

    #!/bin/bash
pandoc -f markdown -t html -i -s -o - | sed -r -e '/^\s*$/d' -e 's/<code><pre>/<pre><code>/g' -e 's/<\/pre><\/code>/<\/code><\/pre>/g' -e 's/<p><\/p>//g' -e 's/<h1>(.*)<\/h1>/<h2>\1<\/h2>/g' | sed -zf <(wget -qO- http://raw.github.com/pioul/Markdown-Here/wiki/page-break.md)

  10. Save the file as markdown.sh.

  11. Make the file executable using the following command:

chmod +x markdown.sh
  1. Create a new file with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash
firefox "http://markdown.pioul.fr/" -new-tab "data:text/html;charset=utf-8,$(echo -e "${1//%/\\x}")"

  1. Save the file as markdown.

  2. Make the file executable using the following command:

chmod +x markdown
  1. Move both the markdown.sh and markdown files to a directory in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin. You may need to use sudo to move the files:
sudo mv markdown.sh markdown /usr/local/bin/

Usage

To use the Minimalist Online Markdown Editor, open a terminal window and type the following command:

markdown <file>.md

Replace <file>.md with the name of your Markdown file. This will open the Markdown file in Firefox, where you can edit and preview it.