[F] Consider #s before headers as masked syntax

[FireFragment]

Expected behaviour

It would be nice, if there was an option in settings to consider #s preceeding atx-style headers as masked syntax and not as part of a header.

It would allow to style #s differently, than the header itself.

Actual behaviour

As far as I know, there isn't any option to consider #s preceeding atx-style headers as masked syntax.

[pbek]

Can you please post some code examples and references who is using Markdown that way?

[FireFragment]

We currently have this: I would like there was some way, to make theese #s gray. Most of editors I know (Abricotine, StackEdit, etc.) styles theese #s differently then the headers themselves.

StackEdit:

P. S: Thanks for a quick response :-)

[pbek]

@Waqar144, your opinion?

[pbek]

Abricotine, StackEdit, etc

Haven't heard of them. The ones I use (all JetBrains IDEs, VS Code, kate, ...) don't use masked syntax for the #s. But that doesn't mean I oppose the idea per se...

[pbek]

Actually that even was a thing says:

@Waqar144, do you know why (and when) we stopped doing that?

[Waqar144]

It probably got lost during the rewrite of the highlighter. But I think it should be fairly easy to add it back. I did try to keep most of the masked syntaxes working, so there's likely code for it already, but probably not working for some reason

[pbek]

I'll use the "masked syntax" styling, but the size of the styling of the heading. Looks like this:

[pbek]

21.12.1

• The #s in the Markdown headings will be now styled as "masked syntax", but with the size of the heading

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

[FireFragment]

Works perfectly, thank you! 👍🏻

[pbek]

Great, thank you for testing!