Eclipse Markdown Editor Plugin
Edit .md and .txt files with syntax highlighting.
Provides Outline and Preview HTML views.
Please see the website for information: http://www.winterwell.com/software/markdown-editor.php
Eclipse Marketplace entry:
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/markdown-text-editor
or install with Nodeclipse CLI Installer nodeclipse install markdown
There is also a complementary GitHub Flavoured Markdown Viewer https://github.com/satyagraha/gfm_viewer
For dedicated AsciiDoc (.adoc) support, see
https://github.com/de-jcup/eclipse-asciidoctor-editor
Usage
Note that for HTML preview OS the internal browser is used, e.g. Internet Explorer on Windows; if you use Ubuntu or other Linux distros, we recommend the WebKit browser; see:
- http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinuxrcp
- http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux
- http://tronprog.blogspot.de/2012/05/eclipse-internal-web-browser-in-kubuntu.html
Eclipse Dev Details
You need Eclipse with PDE, e.g. Eclipse Standard
Main Editor class winterwell.markdown.editors.MarkdownEditor defined as
<editor
name="Markdown Editor"
extensions="txt,md"
icon="icons/notepad.gif"
contributorClass="winterwell.markdown.editors.ActionBarContributor"
class="winterwell.markdown.editors.MarkdownEditor"
id="winterwell.markdown.editors.MarkdownEditor">
</editor>
Build
mvn package
then check site\target directory for update site archive markdown.editor.site-x.x.x.zip and p2 repository.
Use Help -> Install New Software... -> Add... -> Archive to istall from .zip file.
Increase version
mvn -Dtycho.mode=maven org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-versions-plugin:set-version -DnewVersion=1.2.0-SNAPSHOT
History
- 1.0
- 1.1 (24 Feb 2014) by Telmo Brugnara @tbrugz #40
- Rich color preferences #35 #37
- 1.2 (Jan 2015) by Olivier Martin @oliviermartin #52
- Update preview when the file is saved #48
- MultiMarkdown metadata #49
- GitHub code blocks #50
- detecting links #51
- open GFM View from Markdown View #53
