Good news for text-editing writers on the OS X platform. The venerable Mac text editor BBEdit has released an update which includes native Markdown support and improved TeX support. From the release notes:
The Markdown language module now supports syntax coloring.
If you choose “Preview in BBEdit” when a Markdown source file is in front, BBEdit will run your Markdown source through the Markdown script, and so your preview reflects what the file will look like in a web browser. Like the previews of HTML source files, the Markdown preview will update as you edit the file.
The TeX language module has been significantly enhanced, with folding support, improved section/subsection detection for the function menu, much more robust math-mode detection, and greatly enhanced LaTeX support. These changes resolve various reported bugs, as well. If you wish to place a “marker” in the function menu, you can write a comment of the following form: %: this is a mark. This comment syntax matches that used by TeXShop. The new TeX module also includes some support for ConTeXt, in the form of recognition and generation of fold ranges for \startXXX…\stopXXX environments, and special-case support for the “mode” environment (we ignore the contents of the mode environment, because it often contains out-of-order environment start/stop commands which can confuse the parser).
I would have loved native Markdown support when I was using BBEdit. This is one feature that initially attracted me to TextMate. The native Markdown and improved TeX support has also been implemented in BBEdit’s free cousin, TextWrangler.
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