Jekyller Blog Editor V4 Read Me

Github Jekyll Editor is extension for Chrome Based Browsers (MS Store address / Google webstore address). Hope to :

1. Support Markdown Editor focusing on Jekyl (hosted in Github.io);
2. Support list posts, edit post, publish post, delete post, etc.;

But due to my personal willing, I hope to seek some new alternative tool which can be much better than my shallow extension, which ideally can support below expectations:

1. Portable & Cross platforms, as I normally switch cross different platforms and devices, especially some of those are restricted to install softwares;
2. As big fan of Vim, Vim-mode in editor is a MUST;
3. Distraction-free mode is perfered;

After scanning all visible candiates, especially several very strong self-hosted solutions (which is most possible approach can easily meet requirement 1), it’s sadlly for me to realize that there is not so perfect solution, let alone the self-host solution anyway relying on one dedicated VPS & those effort/trouble shooting in those setup and also customization.

Then, I eventually made up of my mind to reconstruct my old tool to be more mordern style.

And after some days’ effort, there are 2 major updates:

• Update the editor soluiton from previews Meltdown to ace which is so strong web-based editor, and can fulfill all my expectation;
• Add ‘Focus Mode’ on top of orginal ‘Preview Mode’;
• Reconstruct the UI and (that might only meaningful for myself and possible developers) the mechanism for theme/UI;

NOTE on Vim ExCmd:

• q: quit
• w: manual save (not really meaningful just for fun.. since the ‘save’ action is automatically done for any keyup)
• l: layout switch between preview & focus mode
• s: dark/light skin switch
• pu: publish
• un: update but not published

History

• 4.0:
  • Critical Reconstruction with above statement