Zettlr Markdown Editor 1.7 Adds Vim And Emacs Input Modes, Tabs Support, Faster Startup Time

Zettlr, a free and open source Markdown editor for personal knowledge management and publishing, had a new release recently (1.7.0, followed by 1.7.1 to fix some issues) which adds Vim and Emacs input modes, tabs support, and faster application startup time thanks to caching, along with many other improvements.

Zettlr features:

In-place Markdown preview
Integration with reference managers such as Zotero or JabRef
Citations using JSON or BibTex
Projects support
Code highlighting for many languages
Export using Pandoc, LaTeX, and Textbundle, allowing you to export to formats like HTML, PDF, OpenDocument, Word, RTF, and more
Full text search with an integrated heatmap
Full Zettelkasten support
Includes 5 themes and dark mode (with optional built-in schedule)
Word counter and writing statistics
File tagging and tag management
Spellchecking / autocorrect
Built-in Pomodoro timer
Distraction-free mode
Available in 14 languages

This is an Electron application. If you prefer a GTK3 Markdown editor, check out Marker.

The new Zettlr 1.7 version comes with a rewritten filesystem core, which brings supports for opening documents in tabs, easier file management, less RAM usage, and faster application startup time thanks to caching (by up to 95% once the cache has been filled). The tabs title display the frontmatter title o filename, and on hover you can get some additional information like the number of words and characters, and tags used by that file.

This release also brings various user interface improvements, like new icons almost everywhere, fixed context menus in some places, all themes were updated, and there's also a new theme, called Bordeaux. Furthermore, the dialogs now respect the dark mode setting.

Yet another important change in Zettlr 1.7 is the addition of Vim and Emacs input modes. You can switch from the normal to Vim or Emacs input modes from the application preferences, on the Editor tab.

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There are many other changes in Zettlr 1.7, including:

Windows-installers are finally code-signed, so no more warnings from your operating system
New syntax highlighting languages
A huge amount of improvements to the editor itself (both display and behavior)
A new, interactive tutorial for new users
RTL support
Added syntax highlighting modes for Elm, F#, Haskell, VB.net, HTML, XML, Markdown, Julia, Turtle, SPARQL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, Tcl, CommonLisp, Scheme and PowerShell
Copying images from the Explorer/Finder/file browser now offers to insert them into the document, copying them over to the assets directory
The global search bar autocomplete will now also work for non-western scripts such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, or any other
On Linux, the default window decorations have been restored -- that is, the burger menu button is gone, and the menu will be displayed wherever the window manager decides
More

Download Zettlr

Zettlr is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux.

On Linux there are DEB packages for Debian and Debian-based Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, Zorin OS and so on, RPM packages for Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS and other RPM-based Linux distributions, as well as an unofficial Arch Linux / Manjaro AUR package. There's also an AppImage that should work on any Linux distribution.