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Abstract Use Mozilla Firefox as a Markdown documents viewer written on Linux Ubuntu, Fedora and Arch, with mention of MS Windows and macOS. Mozilla Firefox and the Markdown layout Mozilla Firefox, one of the best Internet browsers, does not natively read documents written in Markdown. If you try to open a document written in Markdown, the browser asks whether it should save it locally or open it with an application among those offered by the operating system. But it doesn’t render the document. It is necessary, therefore, to use an add-on plugin to view a Markdown document in rendered mode within the navigator. An excellent plugin is Markdown Viewer Webext . In addition to displaying content written in Markdown, the component makes available a pop-up table of contents that also allows you to choose the style ( default and github ) and download the HTML version of the document locally. I did, however, have some problems to install the component under GNU/Linux, especially on...

What is the subject of this article? In this article I will talk about Vim, snippets powered by SirVer UltiSnip : “ the ultimate solution for snippets in Vim ” and Honza vim-snippets (hereafter also simply referred as “honza”). For some more information you can refer to this previous article of mine . SirVer UltiSnip is a plugin to launch and manage snippets in Vim. The application does not contain snippets but you can create your own by following the plugin syntax or use a collection of ready-made snippets. Honza vim-snippets contains an extensive collection of snippets for various languages. In fact into the Honza GitHub repository you’ll find two separate collections of snippets for the same languages. What’s the difference about them? This is the argument we are going to talk about in this article. All operations were performed on a computer running the GNU/Linux operating system. Honza and the snippets collections In the Honza vim-snippets GitHub repository you will...