Markdown plugin for Gedit

gedit-markdown is a simple gedit plugin written in python.

Current Features:

• As-you-type Markdown preview
• Custom CSS support
• Built-in & Separated window views (highly unstable - disabled by now)

Usage

Using gedit-markdown is easy: open a .md file and preview it.

A menu entry is found at

[Gear menu] > Markdown > Preview Markdown files

Alternativelly, you can use the keyboard shortcut:

<Primary><Shift> M

Installation

To install it, simply run as user:

$ make && make install

After that, it'll be installed in .local/share/gedit/plugins.

System Requirements

• Gedit >= 3.11.8
• python-markdown

Development

You can check on the current development status of the plugin at:

https://github.com/GeorgesStavracas/gedit-markdown

Comments, ideas and (most of all) bug reports (and especially patches) are very welcome.

Current status

• [x] Preview Markdown files
• [x] As-you-type preview
• [x] Support custom CSS
• [ ] Markdown extensions
• [ ] Export as HTML

##TODO

• Remove python-markdown dependency (self containable)
• Support Markdown extensions
• Test it to the death