mdown.vim

Currently unmaintained: See Issue #2.

Neovim plugin that brings simple, but efficient, markdown preview within VIM.

It uses neovim's remote plugin feature to glue up together markdown-it, tiny-lr() and vim's markdown buffers. Most of the plugin functionality is implemented in node (see ./rplugin/node/mdown.js).

It just defines two functions and one command to render, preview and refresh markdown files from buffers.

:Mpreview to render and open a new webpage. This command is only available within Markdown buffers.

The plugin is also configured to re-render and trigger a LiveReload refresh while typing (see ./plugin/mdown.vim).

Install

Install this plugin using your favorite plugin manager, or manually by extracting the files in your ~/.vim or ~/.config/nvim directory.

Make sure to run npm install within the plugin directory when installed. Some package managers allows you to perform a post-install hook, like vim-plug or neobundle.

Example Using vim-plug

Plug 'neovim/node-host', { 'do': 'npm install' }
Plug 'vimlab/mdown.vim', { 'do': 'npm install' }

Once installed, make sure to "update remote plugins" by running :UpdateRemotePlugins

Example