Markless previews markdown inline and integrates closely with the existing extensions.

Headers

URLs

Images

(and gifs!)

Preview on hover

Preview inline

Inline code

LaTeX

$..$ for inline blocks and $$..$$ for multiline blocks.

Live preview

Emphasis

Blockquote

Horizontal rule

HTML tags

List

Task list

Mermaid

Use mermaid as the language specifier in the code block.

Table

Reveal source

The concealed elements near the cursor are auto-revealed.

To show all concealed elements, use the toggle button on the top-right. Alternatively, use the provided Ctrl+Shift+m shortcut. To reveal only the current line, toggle with Ctrl+Shift+space.

Performance

The extension intelligently parses only the visible text for large files and employs caching extensively. Entire rendering takes well under 100ms.

Vim bindings

The implementation uses the native editor instead of Custom UI. All extensions should work as expected including Neo Vim.

Spec compliant

The parser follows the Github Flavoured Markdown (therefore Commonmark) spec. The inline preview will always be consistent with the formats exported using spec compliant renderers.

Extension Settings

Look under Markless section to selectively turn off the eye candies.

"editor.tokenColorCustomizations": {
    "textMateRules": [
        {
            "scope": "markup.list",
            "settings": {
                "foreground": "#6c7500",
                },
        },
        {
            "scope": "markup.bold",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold",
            },
        },
        {
            "scope": "markup.heading",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold",
            },
        },
        {
            "scope": "markup.inline.raw",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "bold",
                "foreground": "#707070",
            },
        },
        {
            "scope": "string.other.link.title.markdown",
            "settings": {
                "fontStyle": "underline",
            },
        },
    ],
},

Known Issues

Bracket pair colorizers interfere with the rendering. If you use one, install the patched version which excludes the markdown files.

Relevant extensions

• Keyboard Shortcuts, Tables and TOC
• Wikilinks, Backlinks, Tags
• Image paste
• Todo lists
• Snippets
• Linting
• Custom CSS
• Vim bindings
• One of yours

Typora equivalents

• Markdown editor
• Mark Text
• Zettlr
• Noteworthy

Differences