Gedit Markdown Preview

Install

• On Arch Linux you can use AUR to install this plugin

This plugin depends on the python3-markdown package (install via your preferred method)

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
cd ~/.local/share/gedit/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/aliva/gedit-markdownpreview.git markdownpreview

Optionally install pymdown-extensions for extra utility with:
pip3 install pymdown-extensions

Tested on gedit 3.30.2

Features:

This plugin supports standard Markdown, plus:

• Code Highlighting
• Abbreviations
• Attribute Lists
• Definition Lists
• Fenced Code Blocks
• Footnotes
• Tables

With optional pymdown-extensions:

• Caret superscripting
• Better Emphasis for bold, itallic, and underscore
• SuperFences Improved Fenced Code Blocks
• extrarawHTML to Parse MD inside HTML blocks
• Mark for simple highlighting
• Task Lists
• Tilde for subscripting and strikethrough

Usage

When viewing a markdown file press ctrl+alt+m to toggle markdown preview

Screenshot