A NetBeans IDE plugin which adds Markdown support. This plugin provides basic syntax highlighting, HTML preview and HTML export when editing a Markdown document.

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Source: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Installation

For the time being the packaged plugin archives can be downloaded from Github:

Releases Overview

You may also compile a binary yourself with the latest development code.

1. git clone git://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown.git
2. Open the folder with NetBeans (Open Project)
3. (Configure Target Platform if needed)
4. Choose "Create NBM" from the project menu
5. Install the plugin with: Tools -> Plugins -> Downloaded

Requirements

• NetBeans >= 7.0
• "NetBeans Plugin Development" plugin must be installed if you want to compile your own binary package.

Plugin features

• Adds Markdown to your "New File" wizard
• Provides basic syntax highlighting
• Provides code folding based on headers
• Provides bread crumbs in the editor based on headers
• Provides a table of contents in the Navigator window
• Enables basic preview of the currently edited file in the IDE
• Exports your saved file content to an HTML document
• Enables HTML preview of your saved file in your configured web browser
• Lets you customize the HTML output with CSS and alien intelligence (Options->Miscellaneous->Markdown->HTML Export)
• Supports multiple extensions over standard markdown (see PegDown, Options->Miscellaneous->Markdown->Extensions)
• Supports auto operations(additoin and removal) for lists (Options->Miscellaneous->Markdown->Miscellaneous)

Screenshots

Authors

• Florian Reiss https://github.com/madflow/
• junichi11 https://github.com/junichi11
• Holger Stenger https://github.com/stengerh/

Contributions are always welcome and greatly appreciated!

Resources

• PegDown : A pure-Java Markdown processor based on a parboiled PEG parser supporting a number of extensions.
• https://bitbucket.org/tcolar/fantomide : Fantom plugin/IDE using Netbeans. Example for implementing a Lexer with a parboiled parser.
• http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ : Home of the Markdown (Basics, Syntax)
• http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/ : Icons