There are also user-developed plugins that can be installed when needed to tailor the editor to your specific needs. This editor has a variety of features that are useful for editing markdowns including an option to toggle a preview pane to view the rendered markdown as you edit. Note, on a Mac you may need to drag the application icon from wherever you unpacked the zip to your Applications folder.
Download the correct version for your platform and install it. VSCode is freely available here and is supported on all major operating systems (Windows, macOS & Linux). Visual Studio Code for Working with Markdowns A handy Markdown Cheatsheet is also available here, and can serve as a useful refresher for the formatting required in your markdown in order to use automatic formatting features such as headings, table of contents, tables, links, image embedding and comments. More detailed instructions for the various types of formatting possible using GitHub flavored markdown can be found here. There are multiple “flavors” of markdown, for example, this site is rendered using GitHub-flavored markdown.
This page includes a how-to discussion of using VSCode, a software package (and associated customizing plugins) intended for writing code that lends itself well to markdowns as well. Markdown documents are written in plain text, and thus are often simpler to create, edit and manage using text editors intended for writing code.
The format is commonly used to generate documents like readme’s in GitHub or blog posts and even this website. Markdown is a formatting language used when the resulting document will be rendered or converted into html documents for web-viewable material. Creating and Editing Markdown documents.Updated: SeptemEdit this Page via GitHub Comment by Filing an Issue Have Questions? Ask them here.