Jun 262011
This is the continuation of the topic gedit Markdown plugin and the comment by Jean-Philippe Fleury, the author of the plugin.
If you frequently have to create Markdown documents, you might want your text editor of choice to support you. Jean-Philippe Fleury developed a nice plugin for Gedit to support Markdown. The plugin can help in two ways: It can apply coloured syntax markup and add a preview pane showing you a rendered version of the markdown code you just entered using [Shift]+[Control]+[m] (configurable via a config file).
Installation
cd ~/Downloads/
wget http://www.jpfleury.net/site/fichiers/gedit-markdown/gedit-markdown.zip
unzip gedit-markdown.zip
./gedit-markdown/gedit-markdown.sh install
The installer will first test for the requirements, and then ask you two questions:
- Which version of Markdown to install (standard/Extra)
- Where you want the preview pane for the HTML output to be placed: Side bar (latéral) or bottom pane (inférieur).
Usage
Now open Gedit.
- Enable syntax highlighting using View → Highlight Mode → Markup → Markdown (automatically applied to files with the extensions
.markdown,.mdand.mkd). - Also activate the preview pane (the plugin) in gedit (Edit → Preferences → Plugins)!
Screen Shots
[...] For an up-to-date version of the information about the gedit Markdown plugin go to the new blog post Markdown for the Gedit Text Editor on Ubuntu 11.04. [...]