MDEditor

A Markdown editor and viewer with live preview, light/dark themes, table support, emoji and Font Awesome icons.

✨ Features

• 📝 Split editor + preview with resizable splitter
• 🌗 Light and dark theme (Ctrl+T) with auto-save
• 🌐 Multi-language: English and Italian
• 📊 Advanced tables: insert dialog, add row/column
• 😀 Emoji & Font Awesome 6 picker with search (Ctrl+Shift+E)
• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts for all formatting
• 💾 Settings persistence: theme, language and layout saved automatically
• ⇄ Swap panels editor/preview
• 🧮 Extended Markdown via Markdig: tables, code, diagrams, math, footnotes

Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+N/O/S	New / Open / Save
Ctrl+T	Toggle light/dark theme
Ctrl+B	Bold
Ctrl+I	Italic
Ctrl+D	Strikethrough
Ctrl+1/2/3	Heading H1 / H2 / H3
Ctrl+U	Bulleted list
Ctrl+K	Link
Ctrl+Shift+I	Image
Ctrl+Shift+C	Code block
Ctrl+Shift+E	Emoji / Icon picker

🚀 Installation

Direct download

Get the latest release from GitHub Releases:

📥 MDEditor-v1.1.0-win-x64.zip (~61 MB)

Extract the ZIP and run MDEditor.exe. Requires WebView2 Runtime (already included in Windows 11).

Prerequisites

• .NET 10 SDK
• WebView2 Runtime (included in Windows 11, installable on Windows 10)

Build & Run

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/pinku/MDEditor.git
cd MDEditor

# Run
dotnet run

# Build Release
dotnet build -c Release

# Publish as standalone app (Windows x64)
dotnet publish -c Release -r win-x64 -o ./publish --self-contained true

npm

npm run build          # Build Release
npm run publish:win    # Publish self-contained Windows x64
npm run run            # Run in debug mode

🛠 Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
.NET 10	Runtime & SDK
WPF	Desktop UI framework
Markdig	Markdown → HTML parsing
WebView2	HTML preview rendering
Font Awesome 6	Icons in preview

📁 Project Structure

MDEditor/
├── App.xaml / .cs              # App startup, resources, settings
├── MainWindow.xaml / .cs       # Main window
├── Dialogs/
│   ├── AboutDialog.xaml / .cs  # About window
│   ├── IconDialog.xaml / .cs   # Emoji/icon picker
│   └── TableDialog.xaml / .cs  # Table insert dialog
├── Localization/
│   └── LocalizationManager.cs  # EN/IT dictionaries
├── Models/
│   └── AppSettings.cs          # JSON settings persistence
├── Themes/
│   ├── LightTheme.xaml         # Modern light theme
│   └── DarkTheme.xaml          # Modern dark theme
└── ViewModels/
    ├── MainViewModel.cs        # Main ViewModel
    └── RelayCommand.cs         # ICommand implementation

👤 Author

Diego Pianarosa — GitHub

📄 License

MIT