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Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by freshyill on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:50PM (#7568313)
I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Yes, I realize there's other themes, but they're terrible too. I find light text on a dark background fine for code, but terrible for writing prose.

For a good Markdown editor, I recommend Mou. It's been my choice for a while now. http://mouapp.com

Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by thibaultCha on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:11PM (#7568486)
I dropped Mou in favour of LightPaper http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac which has more features (tabs, edit or preview panels hiding), better themes and customisation imho.
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by freshyill on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:22PM (#7574207)
Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by dtech on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:09PM (#7568473)
I personally like MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com/, windows only), but for some non-basic features (GitHub Flavored Markdown, PDF export) you have to buy it for $15.
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by flaie on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:34PM (#7568689)
Mou is a great app, it also has a GitHub style live preview which is very nice, but it can be very slow on large Markdown files. I also had some problems with the syntax highlighter on lists.
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by coldtea on Thursday April 10, 2014 @02:27PM (#7568637)
>I love that light gray text on a light gray background. Can't get enough of it. Super readable.

Well, it is to me. I can't stand too much contrast, it hurts my eyes.

Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by justinpaulson on Thursday April 10, 2014 @01:59PM (#7568381)
Seconded, Mou is great.
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by myhf on Thursday April 10, 2014 @03:24PM (#7569052)
Is anyone able to get the Dark theme to work? I just installed it by Package Control and it only wants to give me light or yellow backgrounds.
Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by jrgnsd on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:02AM (#7571878)
Got it working on ST 2 on Windows.

Ensure that you're editing the right flavor file, and restart ST for good measure.

Re:MarkdownEditing – Markdown package for Sublime Text by clvrly on Thursday April 10, 2014 @04:04PM (#7569319)
Nope. No other color scheme seems to be working for me. I'm on linux; Crunchbang.