Cannot make vim-markdown conceal the formatted text

Question

I am quite new to Neovim, just installed some of the important plugins and now I wanted to make it really good for writing Markdown files. I installed vim-markdown for that, and followed the documentation in the Git repo.

Even-though I followed the explanations, I wasn't able to make the concealing work. I am doing a lua configuration. I installed the plugin using packer and created a vim-markdown.lua file in a .config/nvim/after directory, where I put my plugin's configuration and keymaps.

I just wrote in there what the README in the GIT repo says. The vim-markdown.lua looks like this:

vim.g.vim_markdown_folding_level = 1 

vim.g.vim_markdown_toc_autofit = 1

vim.o.conceallevel=2 

vim.g.vim_markdown_conceal = 1

While installing some other plugin, I came up with this information:

To clarify:

• The markdown plugin is the preservim/vim-markdown
• The font on my terminal is the Monospace
• The colorscheme I have in neovim is the tokyonight, dark version.
• I am using Terminator as my terminal

Shouldn't this work? Once I open a Markdown file, there is no conceal to be seen...

I appreciate all the feedback. Thank you!

Answer 1

I don't think Neovim loads lua file from nvim\after.

If you want your setting to apply specifically to the markdown file type I would create a markdown.vim file within: ~/.config/nvim/after/ftplugin with the following content:

let g:vim_markdown_folding_level=1 

let g:vim_markdown_toc_autofit=1

set conceallevel=2 

let g:vim_markdown_conceal=1

Remark: It seems that this version of vim-markdown has more attention than the Tim Pope's version

Remark: For markdown writing a popular choice seems to be vimwiki