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I am looking for for a Markdown editor that can display inline images, is largely compatible with pandoc syntax, supports most common vim-keybindings, and runs on Linux.

I am currently using gvim with vim-pandoc for syntax highlighting, but there is no support for displaying images inside gvim. Newer markdown editors like Abricotine, looks great and can display inline images, but I can't find one that supports vim-bindings or most of the pandoc spec.

Edit: The closest I have found is to preview the document in a separate window, but I would prefer to be able to display and edit the content (including images) in one window instead of in two different windows

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  • Have you checked other pandoc questions tagged markdown, especially those with answers? Doesn't any of their solution fit your requirements? – Izzy♦ Mar 14 '16 at 12:37
  • Thanks @Izzy, most of those are about mac or web markdown editors, or markdown conversion tools. The closest I have found is to preview the document in a separate window, but I would prefer to be able to display and edit the content (including images) in one window instead of in two different windows. – joelostblom Mar 14 '16 at 17:45
  • Thanks for checking! May I suggest you edit that into your question, so it becomes obvious to potential answerers? Not everybody scans comments ;) I've tried a bunch of those editors, but I didn't check for pandoc&vim so I cannot give a recommendation here myself. However, I didn't encounter any editor not having a separate window for the preview, so I'm afraid it already fails at this place. Though I've not explicitly checked for that (I'm fine with seeing the Markdown I write). – Izzy♦ Mar 14 '16 at 17:54
  • Have you tried haroopad? – sebelk Jan 10 '17 at 3:27
  • @sebelk yes, last time I used it there was no support for inline images rendered in the editor. Has that changed? – joelostblom Jan 10 '17 at 21:05
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One possible workaround, if a little overkill, is to use a jupyter notebook in a browser window - you will get each cell rendered as you go from cell to cell and you could always have a function at the top that saves the other notebook cells and renders the document through pandoc.

The majority of the markdown used in jupyter/ipython is the same as the pandoc markdown and I am sure that a little tailoring could support the rest & you can definitely have images embedded.

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I would never have guessed it at the time I posted this question, but the most suitable editor for my purposes seems to be... Emacs! I recently started using Emacs to try out the feature-filled org-mode for note taking. It turns out that it has all the features I was looking for!

  • Vim bindings are provided via evil-mode, which can be configured separately and is installed by default in the Spacemacs distribution of Emacs (this is what I use, it comes with many nice defaults).
  • Pandoc syntax highlighting - Markdown mode enables syntax highlighting for pandoc markup elements (there is also Pandoc mode, which I have not tried myself). It is possible to define custom export commands and view the output in the built-in Emacs browser. Markdown mode also enables folding of headings similar to vim-pandoc.
  • Inline-images - Images can be viewed inline in both Markdown mode and org-mode, as long as imagemagick is installed and supported by your version of Emacs. The functions used in org-mode can be found here (to be fair, I have had some troubles with inline images in markdown mode, but I haven't looked too much into it since I use org-mode for note taking now).

Other aspects I appreciate of Emacs include the possibility to search among existing functions and keybindings and org-mode's time-keeping and task management features. To be clear, I still use vim for editing files via terminal, but for taking notes I use Emacs with org-mode and it's great!

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  • After having several issues with emacs, I have switched back to vim for editing md files, which I think is an overall nicer experience even though it doesn't render images inline. – joelostblom Jun 21 '20 at 21:06

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