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)

  (toggle bold)

  (check/uncheck task list)

  See full key binding list in keyboard shortcuts section

• Table of contents

  

  • 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

• List editing

  (Enter)

  (Enter)

  (Tab)

  (Backspace)

  (auto fix ordered list markers)

• Print Markdown to HTML

  • Command Markdown: Print current document 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

• GitHub Flavoured Markdown

  • Table formatter

    

    (Note that the keybinding is Ctrl + Shift + I on Linux)

  • Task list

• Math

  

• Auto completions

  • Images

    

  • Math functions

    

  • Reference links

    

• Others

  • Paste link on selected text

    

  • Override "Open Preview" keybinding with "Toggle Preview", which means you can close preview using the same keybinding (Ctrl + Shift + V or Ctrl + K V).

Available Commands

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

Keyboard Shortcuts

Table

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

Supported Settings

Table

Name	Default	Description
markdown.extension.italic.indicator	*	Use * or _ to wrap italic text
markdown.extension.list.indentationSize	adaptive	Use different indentation size for ordered and unordered list
markdown.extension.orderedList.autoRenumber	true	Auto fix list markers as you edits
markdown.extension.orderedList.marker	ordered	Or one: always use 1. as ordered list marker
markdown.extension.preview.autoShowPreviewToSide	false	Automatically show preview when opening a Markdown file.
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.print.onFileSave	false	Print to HTML on file save
markdown.extension.showExplorer	true	Show outline view in explorer panel
markdown.extension.syntax.decorations	true	Add decorations to strikethrough and code spans
markdown.extension.syntax.plainTheme	false	A distraction-free theme
markdown.extension.toc.githubCompatibility	false	GitHub compatibility
markdown.extension.toc.downcaseLink	true	Force the TOC links to be lowercase
markdown.extension.toc.levels	1..6	Control the heading levels to show in the table of contents.
markdown.extension.toc.orderedList	false	Use ordered list in the table of contents.
markdown.extension.toc.plaintext	false	Just plain text.
markdown.extension.toc.tabSize	auto	Control the indentation size of TOC (auto or a number)
markdown.extension.toc.unorderedList.marker	-	Use -, * or + in the table of contents (for unordered list)
markdown.extension.toc.updateOnSave	true	Automatically update the table of contents on save.
markdown.extension.katex.macros	{}	KaTeX macros e.g. { "\\name": "expansion", ... }

Changelog

See CHANGELOG for more information.

Latest Development Build

Download it here.

To install, execute Extensions: Install from VSIX... in the Command Palette (ctrl + shift + p)

Contributing

• File bugs, feature requests in GitHub Issues.
• Leave a review on Visual Studio Marketplace.
• Buy me a coffee ☕ (via PayPal, Alipay or WeChat).

Special thanks to all the contributors.

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