Vim live preview (sort of)

Wed, 08 Oct 2014 22:40:00 +0000

When editing Markdown files or internet drafts in Pandoc’s Markdown, I wanted to see some live preview window. I looked around a bit, but the solutions presented on the Internet, seemed to be insufficient, either to clumsy or don’t work at all.

My usual routine is: edit -> write -> make -> reload “rendered” file.

Turns out you can automate most of this. Vim has a feature: --servername <id> which allows you to send commands to another vim instance using that <id>. So we need two pieces to make this work.

Preview on Miek Gieben

Vim live preview (sort of)