/Live preview
type
Feature
title
Live preview
description
Source, Live and Read modes, formatting shortcuts and in-file find and replace.
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editor
generated
by: claude-code/claude-opus-5-5 at: 2026-10-28T18:00:00+01:00
sources
id: changelog resource: https://github.com/pothos-dev/sunstone/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md title: Sunstone CHANGELOG

Live preview

The editor works like Obsidian's live preview: lines you are not editing render styled, and the line under the cursor shows its raw markdown. Code is highlighted, task lists are clickable, and GFM tables are interactive.

View modes

A three-way toggle switches between:

  • Source – the raw markdown.
  • Live – hybrid editing, as described above.
  • Read – the rendered page, with a comfortable line length.

The mode is remembered across restarts.

Formatting

Shortcut Effect
Ctrl/Cmd+B Bold
Ctrl/Cmd+I Italic
Ctrl/Cmd+E Inline code
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+M Strikethrough
Ctrl/Cmd+1 … 6 Heading level 1–6
Ctrl/Cmd+0 Paragraph

All of them toggle. Right-clicking in the editor opens a menu with the same actions, plus cut, copy, paste and comments. In the preview, -- and --- render as en and em dashes.

Find and replace

In-Concept find and replace scrolls each match into view as you step through results.

Zoom

Ctrl + and Ctrl − zoom the whole interface, Ctrl+0 resets it, and Ctrl+mouse wheel works too. A +/− button at the bottom of the right rail does the same.

Saving

Changes are saved automatically. Closing the app saves any pending change first. When a file changes on disk (for example after a git pull), Sunstone picks it up live.

Sources
  1. Sunstone CHANGELOGhttps://github.com/pothos-dev/sunstone/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md