An attempt to make italic and bold behave more like other editors.
In particular:
Italic and bold still continue to new lines, but an empty line interrputs it.
To be valid, the starting markers must be immediately followed by non-whitespace and the ending markers must be preceded immediately by non-whitespace.
In addition, the line hi def link markdownCode Delimiter causes in-line code that is framed by backticks to be colored the same as code indented with four spaces.
I have not tried to change markdownBoldItalic and markdownStrike.
An attempt to make italic and bold behave more like other editors. In particular:
See discussion here: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/11116/how-to-make-a-syntax-region-stop-on-empty-lines
In addition, the line
hi def link markdownCode Delimiter
causes in-line code that is framed by backticks to be colored the same as code indented with four spaces.I have not tried to change markdownBoldItalic and markdownStrike.