ReText

ReText is a Linux ready, simple (yet powerful) text editor for Markdown and reStructured text. ReText includes a built in "Live preview" function so that writers can see their changes in real-time.



Emerge
Emerge ReText just like any standard program:

Troubleshooting
If you start ReText and upon startup get messages such as these:

then you will need to build with the   USE flag enabled. The way of resolving this issue is to modify the file by adding  :

For more information on USE flags see the Handbook's USE flag documentation.

Modify:

Finally rebuild the system's world packages. This should satisfy all related issues:

If done correctly any packages that support  will be rebuilt, including webkit. The above command will probably take quite a while, but having a Markdown editor is worth it, right?!

No icons in toolbar
If the icons are missing the icon theme needs to be specified in gconf or in the ReText configuration file.

Available icon themes are located in (hicolor will not work).