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Extra Markdown editor settings

by Henry Heino
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Screenshot: Shows line numbers, autocomplete, and folding in use Screenshot: Shows the available settings: line numbers, code folding, autocomplete, highlight line gutter, highlight active line, highlight spaces, highlight trailing spaces, and more.

Description

Line numbers, code folding, space highlighting, word count, and other options for the CodeMirror 6 editor.

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Maintainers: personalizedrefrigerator
Version:1.8.0
Minimum app version:3.0.3
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Extended Markdown editor settings

This plugin adds several additional Markdown editor settings. Many of these settings are built in to Joplin's CodeMirror editor.

In Joplin Desktop < 3.1.x: To use this plugin, first enable the beta editor in settings (Options > General > Opt in to the editor beta).

Available settings

Screenshot of Joplin Desktop's settings screen for the Extended Markdown editor settings plugin

  • Show line numbers: Shows line numbers to the left of the editor.
  • Enable code folding: Adds expand/collapse buttons to the editor gutter.
  • Enable autocomplete: Shows a completion dialog in certain code blocks.
  • Highlight the gutter for the active line: If a gutter is shown (e.g. for line numbers), the gutter for the current line is shown in a different color.
  • Highlight spaces: Makes spaces and tabs visible.
  • Highlight trailing spaces: Highlights space characters at the end of lines.
  • Highlight selection matches: If text is selected, other visible instances of the same text are highlighted.
  • Show background grid pattern: Shows a grid pattern behind the editor's content.
  • Show word count: Adds a panel that shows the number of words in the open note. This number is calculated differently from Joplin's built-in word counter.
  • Show visual sync indicator: Shows an icon or text panel that indicates Joplin's current sync status.
  • Hide Markdown: Hides or replaces formatting markup. For example, clickable checkboxes added to the start of items in checklist markup.
  • Text direction (advanced): Allows setting the editor's text direction to right-to-left or left-to-right for all lines, regardless of system language settings.

More information: The "Hide Markdown" setting

The "Hide Markdown" setting hides or replaces Markdown on lines that don't contain the cursor.

In particular, setting "Hide Markdown" to "Some", makes the following changes:

  • Checkbox markup: Replaced with checkboxes:
    screenshot: Checkboxes are shown to the left of checklist items
  • Links: In links in [title](url) format, URLs and brackets are hidden:
    screenshot: Link URLs are hidden when the cursor is on a different line
    At present, clicking links does not follow them.
  • Headings: #s are hidden:
    screenshot: A Markdown heading labeled "Test" with a "#" character, headings level 1-4 shown without.
    Above, the cusror is on the same line as the # Test heading. As a result, its leading # markup is visible.
  • Bold/italic/code markup: Formatting characters (e.g. **) are hidden:
    screenshot: "Bold, italic, and code" repeated twice. First, with formatting characters, second without.
  • Blockquotes: >s are hidden:
    screenshot: Blockquote containing "This is a blockquote!" is shown twice. The first time with the leading ">", the second time without.