Markdown plugin for Sublime Text

with...

• useful Markdown editing features for Sublime Text
• color schemes optimized for writing
• robust syntax definitions for
  • Standard Markdown
  • Github flavored Markdown
  • MultiMarkdown

Please visit User Guide to learn more about the full set of features and how to use them.

• displays headings in Goto Symbol...
• displays headings in Goto Symbol in Project...
• fold current section
• fold by heading levels
• navigate between adjacent headings with Find Next/Previous Heading command.

• automatic detection and maintenance of open or closed atx headings style while typing
• change headings levels via key bindings
• auto-complete Setext-style headings underlines
• convert Setext-style headings to ATX headings
• new documents are named automatically based on first header

• At the end of a list item, pressing Enter will automatically insert the new list item bullet.
• Pressing Tab on the blank list item will indent it and switch the list bullet to another one (Order is *, -, + in a cycle).
• Pressing Shift + Tab on the blank list item will unindent it in the same way as above.
• Sequential Tab s or Shift Tab s are supported.
• You can disable automatic bullet switching or choose which bullets to be used, in your settings file (mde.list_indent_bullets).
• If a list item contains a GFM Task, pressing
  • Enter at the end of the line continues with a new blank task.
  • Alt+X in the line toggles the check mark.

• At the end of a blockquote line, pressing Enter will automatically extend blockquote.
• Selecting some text and pressing > will convert it to blockquote. The first and the last line don't have to be fully selected; partial select works, too.

• Syntax highlighting for inline critic markup
  • {++ addition ++}
  • {>> comment <<}
  • {-- deletion --}
  • {== highlight==}{>> comment <<}
  • {~~ substitution ~> by ~~}
• Reviewers can add critic via key bindings
• Authors can accept or reject critic via key bindings

• Left bracket pairing is modified to eliminate the selection and leave the cursor at a point where you can insert a [] or () pair for a link.
• URL part of images, links and references is automatically folded if caret is not within brackets
• Convert inline links to references
• Jump between definitions and references
• Organize references
• Add or remove footnotes

• Asterisks (*), backticks (`) and underscores (_) are auto-paired and wrap selected text
• ~ wraps selected text with ~~ (strike-through)
• Backspace deletes an empty pair
• Space or Tab deletes right element of empty pair of asterisks or underscores

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

MarkdownEditing was originally created by Brett Terpstra and has become a community project with the goal of consolidating the best features from the varied collection of Markdown packages for Sublime Text.

Related blog posts from Brett:

• http://brettterpstra.com/2012/05/17/markdown-editing-for-sublime-text-2-humble-beginnings
• http://brettterpstra.com/2013/11/23/markdownediting-for-sublime-text-updates

Development was headed by Ali Ayas and Felix Hao until early 2021.

Current development is headed up by DeathAxe.

This plugin contains portions of code from Knockdown.

Footnote commands were submitted by J. Nicholas Geist and originated at geekabouttown.

MarkdownEditing is released under the MIT License.