Markdown Support for Visual Studio Code

All you need for Markdown (keyboard shortcuts, table of contents, auto preview and more).

Features

• Keyboard shortcuts (toggle bold, italic, code span, strikethrough and heading)
  • Tip: **word|** -> **word**| (Ctrl + B)
  • If there is no text selected, the word under cursor will be styled (or the entire list item if you are toggling strikethrough)
• Table of contents (No additional annoying tags like <!-- TOC -->)
  • The indentation rules (tab or spaces) of TOC will be the same of your current file (find it in the right bottom corner)
  • To make TOC compatible with GitHub, you need to set option githubCompatibility to true
  • Use <!-- omit in toc --> to ignore specific heading in TOC
• Automatically show preview when opening a Markdown file (Disabled by default)
• Print Markdown to HTML
  • It's recommended to print the exported HTML to PDF with browser (e.g. Chrome) if you want to share your documents with others
• List editing (continue list when pressing Enter at the end of a list item) (also works for quote block)
  • Pressing Tab at the beginning of a list item will indent it
  • Pressing Backspace at the beginning of a list item will unindent it (or delete the list marker)
  • Blank list item will be remove on Enter
  • Ordered list markers will be automatically fixed after you indent/outdent a line or move a line up/down
• GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • Table formatter (Alt + Shift + F)
  • Task list (use Alt + C to check/uncheck a list item)
• Math rendering (see screenshot below)
• Auto completions
  • Images paths (and previews)
  • Math commands
• Others
  • Override "Open Preview" keybinding with "Toggle Preview", which means you can close preview using the same keybinding (Ctrl + Shift + V or Ctrl + K V).

Keyboard Shortcuts

Table of Contents

List Editing

Table Formatter

Outline

Task Lists

Math Rendering

Shortcuts

Key	Command
Ctrl + B	Toggle bold
Ctrl + I	Toggle italic
Alt + S	Toggle strikethrough
Ctrl + Shift + ]	Toggle heading (uplevel)
Ctrl + Shift + [	Toggle heading (downlevel)
Ctrl + M	Toggle math environment
Alt + C	Check/Uncheck task list item

Available Commands

• Markdown: Create Table of Contents
• Markdown: Update Table of Contents
• Markdown: Toggle code span
• Markdown: Print current document to HTML

Supported Settings

Name	Default	Description
markdown.extension.toc.levels	1..6	Control the heading levels to show in the table of contents.
markdown.extension.toc.unorderedList.marker	-	Use -, * or + in the table of contents (for unordered list)
markdown.extension.toc.orderedList	false	Use ordered list in the table of contents.
markdown.extension.toc.plaintext	false	Just plain text.
markdown.extension.toc.updateOnSave	true	Automatically update the table of contents on save.
markdown.extension.toc.githubCompatibility	false	GitHub compatibility
markdown.extension.preview.autoShowPreviewToSide	false	Automatically show preview when opening a Markdown file.
markdown.extension.orderedList.marker	ordered	Or one: always use 1. as ordered list marker
markdown.extension.orderedList.autoRenumber	true	Auto fix list markers as you edits
markdown.extension.italic.indicator	*	Use * or _ to wrap italic text
markdown.extension.showExplorer	true	Show outline view in explorer panel
markdown.extension.print.absoluteImgPath	true	Convert image path to absolute path
markdown.extension.print.imgToBase64	false	Convert images to base64 when printing to HTML
markdown.extension.syntax.decorations	true	Add decorations to strikethrough and code spans
markdown.extension.syntax.plainTheme	false	A distraction-free theme

Changelog

See CHANGELOG for more information.

Latest CI Build

Download it here.

Contributing

Bugs, feature requests and more, in GitHub Issues.

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