New modes optimized for reading markdown content (as opposed to editing it)

[vermiculus]

Expected Behavior

I suggest a {markdown,gfm}-view-mode that derives from the normal editing modes. These would be optimized for reading, not editing.

Actual Behavior

The naive approach is to enable read-only-mode in the buffer, but this puts all the navigation commands far out of reach.

I'm going to be including a very basic concept of gfm-view-mode in an upcoming version of Magithub, but it'd be nice if that definition could come from this package instead 😄

[jrblevin]

Thanks, I am on board with this idea. Something along these lines was also suggested in #130.

Just checking, do you know about hidden markup mode (M-x markdown-toggle-markup-hiding or C-c C-x C-m)? It seems that this could be solved simply by a mode that turns on read-only-mode and sets markdown-hide-markup. Perhaps some maintenance work to make sure the editing commands fail gracefully. Is there anything else it should do?

[vermiculus]

I'm on a subpar network right now so sorry I can't expand more, but putting more navigation at your fingertips. Even binding n/p to section movement proofed very beneficial. More careful thought could bring even greater benefit.

[vermiculus]

I created such a mode for Magithub and found it dramatically improved usability with just those two additional bindings. I don't use markdown-mode enough to know what else would be routinely useful.

I did know about markdown-hide-markup -- it's very cool 😄

[jrblevin]

Thanks for demonstrating with the gfm-view-mode in Magithub. Inspired by that, I added two view modes in the above referenced commit. Let me know if you have thoughts or suggestions...

[vermiculus]

Awesome! This is just the kind of thing I was looking for 😄

Thanks!