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Back again to one of my favorites which is called Markdown. Once every now and then i forget how easy it is. Normally i use Textmate to do all my writing, but recently i have picked up VIM to do some editing etc. Why i did chose VIM? I will not trouble you with that decision 
Using Textmate everything is easy, but when you want to use Markdown inside VIM it is somewhat different. But anything is different when using VIM
##Steps
* download Markdown from [The home of Markdown][home_of_markdown], It’s usual place as this is a Perl script you need to put it somewhere so OSX is able to execute it.
* start your terminal and create a directory inside ‘usr/local/bin’
* extract the downloaded file and put the ‘Markdown.pl’ file inside the ‘user/local/bin’ directory
* inside the terminal chmod the ‘Markdown.pl’ to 777
* using the [Installing Markdown as OSX Service][osx_markdown_service] OSX Automator create a service to use Markdown
* You are done…
##Links
* [The home of Markdown][home_of_markdown]
* [TextMate][textmate]
* [Vim][vim]
* [Installing Markdown as OSX Service][osx_markdown_service]
[home_of_markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[textmate]: http://macromates.com/
[vim]: http://www.vim.org/
[osx_markdown_service]: http://gothick.org.uk/2010/08/04/installing-markdown-as-a-os-x-service-using-automator-in-snow-leopard/
