There’s YAME (Yet Another Markdown Editor) in the Mac App Store, & it has a pretty unique, clever, interesting feature:

Valletta’s unique Combined View displays only the line under the cursor as Markdown source, and it displays the rest in “marked-down” form. This makes Valletta a beautiful and distraction-free Markdown Editor that doesn’t waste your precious screenspace with an unnecessary preview pane.

As I said, very interesting. I went to the App Store & checked it out, & noticed that it only said it supported Markdown. Now, anyone who’s active in the Markdown world knows that this can means many different things, among them:

  • The original, John Gruber only, pristine Markdown.
  • MultiMarkdown, a set of smart extensions to the original Markdown spec by Fletcher Penney.
  • PHPMarkdown Extra, a set of (also) smart extensions to the original Markdown spec by Michel Fortin.
  • And about 4 or 5 other variants of Markdown out there.

So I emailed the developer of Valletta to ask: which Markdown do you support?

His reply: straight Markdown, as close as possible to Gruber’s original.

When I followed up & asked if there was going to be any support for any of the others, he told me not right now, but they are “keen to do so” once they get the initial experience of Valletta exactly where they want it. After that, the next on the list would be MultiMarkdown (which is entirely logical to me).

So there you have it. If you’re interested in Valletta, now you know which Markdown you’re getting when you buy it.