Is there a simple Windows MarkDown editor?

[j7n]

It seems that MD files are getting increasingly popular for Readme text documents. The supported formatting elements are extremely basic: two levels of heading, bold, italic, bulleted list, numbered lisit, horizontal line, hyperlink, image and quote. A program analogous to WordPad could show them. Yet the programs I've seen are tied to the web, and are a couple dozen megs or larger, and may include programming features.

Among the recommendations I saw Visual Studio Code (are you serious?) and Markdown Pad, which is 36 MB compressed, despite being described as small, MDView claims to do nothing else but display the text but is 73 MB and doesn't come in x86 architecture. Am I getting old and these sizes are now right for a text editor?

Is there a small MD text editor based on RichText or an old HTML engine similar to Opera or Pegasus mail?

[D.Draker]

SciTE

[j7n]

This editor opens fast, and can be a good choice as a Notepad replacement. It's lacking in GUI menu items for most options. They are all in text files.

Can it only do syntax highlight, and not formatting?

[Dixel]

Text editing in SciTE works similarly to most Macintosh or Windows editors with the added feature of automatic syntax styling.

SciTE can hold multiple files in memory at one time but only one file will be visible.

Features include:

Options to allow searching for words, regular expressions, matching case, in the reverse direction, wrapping around the end of the document.

Buffers.

Sessions.

Default key bindings.

Bookmarks.

Multiple selection.

Code Folding – a code block can be folded (and made invisible) with a click of the mouse.

LUA scripting for extensibility.

Virtual space.

Provides syntax support for many computer languages including: Ada, Assembler, C, C++, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, HTML, Java, LISP, Lua, Matlab, Metapost, Objective Caml, Octave, Pascal, Perl, PostScript, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scheme, Smalltalk, XML and YAML.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/SciTe/

[D.Draker]

SciTE is a highly configurable tool, just look for the articles, it makes no sense to copy paste here. I'm sure you'll like this light editor.