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Don't you mean a markdown editor?
Chances are, your favorite text editor can handle markdown well enough... unless you want WYSIWYG, in which case your text editor would still be good enough for the job and you would be wrong :-)
READMEs aren't necessarily markdown. That is the most popular option, but there's others out there. Here's Github's list of supported README formats for example:
Yeah, have been using text editor mainly for markdown editing or other lightweight WYSIWYG apps, it's good enough. Felt, there could be more out there that I am missing out on which I am unaware of.
There are a pletora of markown editors that have a split view w/ live preview (I used various - the one I currently have installed is Ghostwriter), but you can most probably get the same with your programmer's text editor (well, unless your text editing is done in the terminal) and, one way or another, you are not guaranteed that what you see is what will be displayed in github/gitlab/...