Dawn is a distraction-free writing environment with live markdown rendering.
Dawn is a lightweight document drafter that runs in your terminal. It renders markdown as you type: headers scale up, math becomes Unicode art, images appear inline. No electron, no browser, no network required.
Dawn is designed for low-latency, distraction free writing. Dawn separates the engine from the platform layer. The core handles text editing, markdown parsing, and rendering. The platform layer (platform.h) provides I/O, making it straightforward to port to different environments.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/andrewmd5/dawn
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Developer: Andrew Sampson
License: MIT License
Dawn is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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