Questions tagged [filetype-markdown]
For questions about configuring and using Vi/Vim to edit markdown files.
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automatically rewrap lines when writing markdown in VIM
Very often, I write markdown in VIM, and there will be paragraphs in those markdown. To help my editing, I setup my Vim to wrap a line on 80 chars. It works nice if I just keep typing, but the problem ...
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Prevent Vim from breaking up links mid-tag in markdown
Let's say I have this Markdown file:
[Lorem ipsum dolor sit ](http://vi.stackexchange.com/many-links-are-often-very)
Lookin' good. But the link isn't finished it, so I type -long, and now Vim
breaks ...
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Replace a series of asterisk bullet points with a numbered list
Imagine I have the following text:
some random stuff
* asdf
* foo
* bar
some other random stuff
I want to replace the asterisk bullets with numbers, like so:
some random stuff
1. asdf
2. foo
3. bar
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Paste link to image in clipboard when editing Markdown
I have an image on the clipboard and I want to paste it into my document as the text [](img/image1.png).
Instead of first copying it to that directory, I want to do it with a single p key press in ...
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Markdown in Neovim: which plugin sets conceallevel=2?
I'm experiecing the most annoying thing ever: when I edit a markdown file, asterisk characters are hidden by default.
If I set on an open buffer :set conceallevel=0, asterisks shows up as they should,...
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How to fold markdown using the built-in markdown mode?
Looking at the ftplugin file for markdown in Vim, it certainly appears that folding is supported, but I cannot get folding to work.
If I have some content like this:
# A heading
Some content.
More ...
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NeoVim hides the * chars when editing markdown
I am using tpope's vim-markdown plugin to edit markdown files. Somehow, neovim hides the _ and * chars and changes the text in between to italic or bold depending on quantity of chars. I want to see ...
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Markdown: how to syntax-highlight Bold and Italic in different color than normal text?
Text marked as__bold__ or _italic_ appears in the same color as normal text.
Headings and code do show up in different colors, so vim correctly recognizes the file as markdown.
This is no matter ...
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Mardown files always have vimwiki filetype (vimwiki plugin)
Here is the relevant content of my .vimrc
let g:vimwiki_global_ext=0
let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': 'C:\Users\<USER>\vimwiki',
\ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md'}]
The ...
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How to preview the result of markdown file edited in vim?
I use vim to edit latex, but latex is bit too heavy for taking notes casually on daily basis, so I decided to use markdown instead.
So, I want to configure vim so that I could view markdown ...
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Join all non-blank lines
When editing markdown and other text files, I like to use textwidth/wrapmargin to insert line breaks at fixed intervals. (The advantage of this is that each visual line is a Vim "line" - ...
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How do I make Vim respect Markdown headers when formating text?
I want to use the combination gggqG to go to the top of the file and format the whole file from there, so that it fits into my 80 col textwidth border.
But when I do, vim ignores my markdown headers. ...
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Highlight double space in markdown
When writing markdown, a double space at the end of a line indicates a line break. Currently, neither single trailing whitespaces nor double-whitespaces are being highlighted.
Is it possible to have ...
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Line formatting (gq) does not correctly indent long list items
I want to wrap my text to 79 characters, I do that using the gq command. For most filetypes this works just fine and indents following lines.
With Markdown, however, it does the following:
The ...
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How to disable spell check inside code blocks in markdown? [closed]
Code blocks (fenced with ` or ```) are bound to have words not correctly spelled and spell check warnings often get in the way of syntax highlighting. I still want spell check enabled for the rest of ...
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What is the vim command to jump to linked line inside markdown document?
I have created a table of contents at the beginning of my markdown document and linked the headers of the document:
# TOC
[first header](#first-header)
# first header
Now, having opened the document ...
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How to decrease markdown header level in visual mode without a plugin?
I have a file like this:
# Heading A
### Heading B1
lorem ipsum
### Heading B2
lorem ipsum
and I want to reduce the header levels of B1 and B2 to look like this:
# Heading A
## Heading B1
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Indent a markdown list item?
I am frequently editing markdown files, and when dealing with multi-line items in hierarchical lists, it would be great to have a rapid way to indent or un-indent a list item. For example, how can I ...
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Why is autoindent not applied to my markdown files?
When editing markdown (*.md) formatted files, and making bullet points, upon pressing return I want the new bullet point to be automatically created in the same level under the previous one.
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Make Vim stop highlighting certain underscores in my Markdown as errors
I'm using Kramdown-flavored Markdown in several of my Jekyll websites. Vim highlights all the underscores in those documents as errors, coloring them (in my color scheme) with bright red backgrounds. ...
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How to stop vim from reformatting lines inside a codeblock in a markdown file?
I keep the a formatoption in vim when I'm modifying markdown files, so my lines are automatically kept to textwidth characters long, with automatic reformatting when I modify text.
How can I make ...
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Prevent Vim from breaking up inline code blocks in (r)markdown
I edit R-markdown files a lot, and this entails writing inline code blocks, such as
`r sum(mylongvectorname)`
I usually have my text hard-wrapped at 80 chars, and this causes problems for the ...
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Open markdown filename under cursor like gf, and jump to the section?
I have the file /path/a.md which has many sections as follows:
# abc
this this the content of section abc
# def
this this the content of section abc
## defg
this this the content of subsection defg ...
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Why does Vim load unrelated ftplugins?
When I open a file with .md extension, the filetype is set to markdown, as expected. But the ftplugin for HTML is also loaded as I can see since I have some insert mode mappings in there to auto-...
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Move lines with tildes to a certain section of a file
I use vim to write my to-do list in markdown format.
To mark a certain task "done" I just make it strikethrough with two tildes(~).
Is there a way to automatically move all strikethrough text to a ...
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How to conceal Markdown syntax per-word, rather than per-paragraph?
I want to use Vim to write markdown in a sort-of-WYSIWYG manner (for use with an audience). For example, typing **Bold** should display Bold in bold font, with the asterisks automatically hidden as ...
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Vim Pandoc & Headers
When using vim-pandoc, I'm having some funny behavior with headers:
For instance,
if I position the cursor on a word and press v-a-w and then <localleader> - i, I get italics.
if I position ...
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How to change markdown item format into task (`[ ]`) on the next line?
When I'm in a markdown file creating a task list, I want it to insert a task list not a list item.
Output:
- [ ] **A task** - A task list <Enter>
- Inserted just a dash
Would like this:
- [ ] **...
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Turn off markdown highlighting for underscores in inline code?
Markdown highlighting is great (when it works), but I've seen a problem on two different boxes with underscores in inline code and I'm wondering if there's an easy solution.
When I put, for instance, ...
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How to preview Markdown in a Vim buffer?
I'm aware of some of the Markdown plugins for Vim, but I want the functionality VS Code and Atom provide, namely being able to split the editor screen and render a live Markdown preview in an adjacent ...
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Convenient way to surround block with markdown codeblock backticks
Is there a convenient way to surround a code block or a range of lines with markdown backticks? That amounts to doing a surround op to insert multiple chars.
Ie. turn:
line 1
line 2
Into:
```
line 1
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write a key command for a markdown comment
I've been messing about with file type specific commands this evening (which is going to be very useful) and I'm trying to write a markdown comment command at the moment. I'm not sure how to go about ...
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Vim RegEx question: how to detect headings of markdown(.md) i.e. lines composed of '-' or '='
I'm learning Vimscript in Learn Vimscript the Hard way and trying an exercise. Here is this:
The lines "underlined" with = characters are treated as headings by Markdown.
:onoremap ih :<...
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Highlight Markdown indented code
When writing Markdown, fenced code written between triple backticks is highlighted, but not code in indented blocks (I don't care about language specific highlighting). How can I get vim to recognize ...
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prevent neovim from breaking one markdown bullet point into multiple ones
I have this markdown text:
* Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown ...
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How to autocomplete citations in markdown files
I take notes in markdown files which I sometimes convert to other documents with pandoc. With the --bibliography=bibliography.bib argument, pandoc recognizes the @key citation format in markdown and ...
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vim specific indentation for markdown
I want the indentation in markdown file as follows
- [ ] Here is some text. When I press enter
- [ ] <--- This entire thing should get populated.
It means - [ ] should be copied onto the next ...
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Vimwiki/Markdown blockquote syntax highlight
AFAIK vimwiki's markdown syntax doesn't emphasize in any way blockquotes. I mean:
> This is a quote
is presented instead as simple text. For reading notes it can be confusing. So, how do you ...
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Syntax highlight Markdown formulas using LaTeX highlighting
I often write non-trivial mathematical formulas inside Markdown documents, and having them syntax-highlighted would really help.
In Markdown, LaTeX math formulae are denoted:
$x^2$ and $$x^2$$, and ...
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Vim-Markdown-Folding plugin error BufEnter E117
Inspired by Drew NEIL's course and the 'nested-folding' feature for Markdown files, I've installed the Vim-Markdown-Folding plugin, on my Vim (:version). The GitHub directory was copied into the ~/....
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Vimwiki overriding normal md highlighting
I love the concept of Vimwiki, but have a problem with it overriding the default md syntax highlighting. The default works well, and I use it regularly to edit md documents to be used with pandoc. ...
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How to disable spell check for a single line (with a custom tag)
Sometimes I do not want to add words to a spellfile, but still ignore them this once. This is particularly prevalent when I write markdown.
It would be nice if I could tag a line with <!-- nospell -...
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README.md (markdown) - jump to infile link
While reading a markdown file, specifically using GitHub markdown, vim interprets hyperlinks correctly. It seems like it would be able to jump to the corresponding section in the file. Is there a key ...
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How to show math equations or formula in markdown file
I like to write notes in markdown file. Most of the times my notes are about coding, but sometimes I need to write some math equations or symbols. I would like to see the equations directly in the vim,...
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How to cut a markdown link on the same line e.g. from `[` to `)`?
If I'm anywhere on a line that contains e.g.:
[text1](link to text1)
How do I cut from [ to ) ?
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Generating automated bullets and numbered lists with markdown
I'm looking for a good way to generate lists that are automatically bulleted. I tried the markdown plugin. It generates bullets automatically but not numbered lists. I also tried the vim-pandoc plugin ...
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Pandoc and formatting
I'm using the vim-pandoc and vim-pandoc-syntax bundles in neovim. I'm converting the markdown to a docx file and I'm seeing that I need to do a double space in order to get a carriage return in the ...
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Fold just one line
I have a custom foldexpr to fold comments in markdown. Is there a way to make this fold operation work on just one line? Even if it is just 1 line, I like the color change that folding applies so I ...
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No italics in vim
I am using vimwiki on nvim 0.1.7 on Konsole 16.12.3 on Plasma 5.9.5 on Kubuntu 17.04.
Wiki text appears bold when it is between two stars. But when between two underscores, it does not appear in ...
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How do I make regexes mutually contain each other?
I've written regexes for markdown for emphasis and bold as follows:
syntax match PandocEmphasisMarker "\v(^|\s+)\zs_[^\n\t_ ]+([^_\n]|(\S_\S)|(\s_\S)|(\s+_\s+))+[^\n\t_ ]+_\ze($|\s+)" contains=...
