This is a Python Virtual environment for running a live markdown previewer.

It has grip (https://github.com/joeyespo/grip) installed which runs a web server, monitoring a markdown file being edited in a external editor, and updates live as the file changes, auto converting from markdown to HTML.

To set up:

1. Create the markdownViewer directory and change to it
2. Set up the virtual environment:

$ virtualenv venv

- NOTE: on Debian Jessie system with no other python than python3 installed,
  you will have to add the `--python=python3` option to virtualenv.

3. Source the activate environment from the the venv/bin dir:

$ source venv/bin/activate

4. Install grip:

$ pip install grip

To start:

1. Source the activate environment from the the venv/bin dir:

$ source venv/bin/activate

2. With the virtual environement active, try grip --help
3. To view a markdown file in any directory, change to that directory then run:

$ grip -v anyfile.md

Check the github page or grip --help for more.

Alternative start:

1. Symlink the markdownViewer.sh to somewhere in your PATH - I have a ~/bin/ dir in my home which is in my PATH, so I symlink it to there. This must be a symlink, and not a copy of the script!
2. Run markdownViewer.sh from within any directory you you need, and pass any grip arguments directly to markdownViewer.sh NOTE: This assumes the virtual environment is in a directory called venv