Separate mode for Markdown files?

Separate mode for Markdown files?

[Skip Montanaro]

I'm running Emacs 24.5. Apropos shows me nothing matching "markdown",
find-library doesn't find a markdown library, and Google shows multiple
markdown mode packages. At the moment I just set text-mode for .md files.
Is there a "one ring to rule them all" for markdown mode? I presume they
understand Markdown syntax to some extent and colorize things in some
non-retina-searing manner. Pick one and be done with it? Continue with
plain old text-mode? Try several (hopefully not)?

Thx,

Skip Montanaro

Re: Separate mode for Markdown files?

[John Mastro]

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Emacs 24.5. Apropos shows me nothing matching "markdown",
> find-library doesn't find a markdown library, and Google shows multiple
> markdown mode packages. At the moment I just set text-mode for .md files.
> Is there a "one ring to rule them all" for markdown mode? I presume they
> understand Markdown syntax to some extent and colorize things in some
> non-retina-searing manner. Pick one and be done with it? Continue with
> plain old text-mode? Try several (hopefully not)?

I use Jason Blevins's `markdown-mode'[1], which you can install from
MELPA.

[1] http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

        John

Re: Separate mode for Markdown files?

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Dec 06 2016, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I'm running Emacs 24.5. Apropos shows me nothing matching 
> "markdown",
> find-library doesn't find a markdown library, and Google shows 
> multiple
> markdown mode packages.

Multiple? I only know of one: 

http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

It can be installed through Melpa.

There's also markdown-preview-mode, which is essentially an add-on 
for markdown-mode, not a competitor, and there's 
markdown-mode+.el, which is also an add-on with some rudimentary 
Pandoc support, but given that its last commit is four years old 
and Pandoc has evolved quite a bit since then, I wouldn't expect 
too much from it.

If you do use Pandoc, you may want to take a look at pandoc-mode, 
but caveat emptor, as it's a package maintained by yours truly:

https://joostkremers.github.io/pandoc-mode/

HTH

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: Separate mode for Markdown files?

[Skip Montanaro]

Thanks all. I guess I misread the Google search results. (My brain is a bit
foggy today, running on lack of sleep...) I'll aim for Jason Blevins'
package.

Skip

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Dec 06 2016, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> I'm running Emacs 24.5. Apropos shows me nothing matching "markdown",
>> find-library doesn't find a markdown library, and Google shows multiple
>> markdown mode packages.
>>
>
> Multiple? I only know of one:
> http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
>
> It can be installed through Melpa.
>
> There's also markdown-preview-mode, which is essentially an add-on for
> markdown-mode, not a competitor, and there's markdown-mode+.el, which is
> also an add-on with some rudimentary Pandoc support, but given that its
> last commit is four years old and Pandoc has evolved quite a bit since
> then, I wouldn't expect too much from it.
>
> If you do use Pandoc, you may want to take a look at pandoc-mode, but
> caveat emptor, as it's a package maintained by yours truly:
>
> https://joostkremers.github.io/pandoc-mode/
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>