# Macchiato

**Archived.** This page dates from the Mac OS X Lion era. Macchiato is no longer
sold or maintained.

## Welcome to Macchiato

Macchiato is a simple plain text editor with a twist. Modeled after TextEdit's
plain text mode, the editor is a chrome-less blank canvas. However, it is built
from the ground up for writing Markdown prose, and, as such, it will format
Markdown text as you write it. Macchiato will not parse your Markdown. Rather, it
will stylize your Markdown source.

## Lion

Macchiato is a first-class citizen on Mac OS X Lion, and embraces all of the new
Lion features:

- Full-screen mode: for when you need to focus.
- Auto-saving: your work is always safe.
- Version history: go back in time, if you screw up.

## Demonstration

All of the header styles are supported. Emphasis and strong emphasis are
supported, and the underscore syntax is also supported. Macchiato is smart about
figuring out what you actually mean when using asterisks and underscores.

Code blocks are supported, by prefixing each line with four spaces or a tab. You
can use code inline by surrounding it with back ticks. Block quotes are supported
too.

By Kenneth Ballenegger. https://kennethballenegger.com