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Markdown Easy Shortcuts

Markdown Easy Shortcuts

Emilio Garzia & Luigi Marino

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Write easy markdown documents with shortcuts
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Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Markdown Easy Shortcuts

Easily write to markdown using snippet, shortcuts and specific automations for markdown documents

Commands

Command Description
Markdown Shortcuts: Bold Text Bold text
Markdown Shortcuts: Italic Text Italic text
Markdown Shortcuts: Table of contents Create table of contents
Markdown Shortcuts: Update table contents Update table of contents

Table of contents

With this extension, you can easily generate a Table of Contents and choose its depth with the keyboard combination CTRL+T, and every time you add a new section that should be inserted in the Table of Contents because of its depth corresponding to the desired one, pressing again the keyboard combination CTRL+T will update the Table of Contents

toc maker

⚠️: With the creation of the Table of Contents some generated comments will be present in your file, do not delete those comments

⚠️: If you want to change the depth of the generated Table of Contents, it is necessary to change the depth specified in the comment <!-- toc start: (desired depth) [do not erase this comment] -->

Shortcuts

Shortcut Description
CTRL+B Bold text
CTRL+I Italic text
ALT+X Check/Uncheck todo item (if you have cursor on the line)
CTRL+T Create a table of contents
CTRL+D Copy the current line in a new line, or selected text in the current line

shortcuts demo

⚠️: If any shortcut doesn't work, check the Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio Code and check if there is any conflict for that key combination

Snippets

Snippet Description
docs Implements a structure for the documentation
code Insert grave accent in order to write code(``)
mcode Insert grave accent to write multiline code
right_arrow Insert right arrow in HTML code
left_arrow Insert left arrow in HTML code
table-n Insert a table with n columns and 1 row
todo Starts a todo list

snippet

Automatic lists

This extension implements an automation when you write lists into the markdown document.

lists

Also the todo lists are dinamically, and you can use a shortcut ALT+X to check/uncheck a todo item.

todo check

External links

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  • 🧑‍💻 Emilio Garzia
  • 🧑‍💻 Luigi Marino
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