rEmarkd: Minimalist Markdown Preview & Viewer for VS Code

rEmarkd replaces VS Code's default Markdown preview so every .md file opens as its own rendered tab — unlike the built-in preview, which reuses a single tab, rEmarkd lets you keep as many rendered markdown tabs open side by side as you want. Fast, distraction-free Markdown rendering with GitHub-style tables, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX math, right out of the box.

✨ Features

• 📄 Default Rendered View: Markdown renders automatically for .md files. Need the raw source? Use the toolbar's Edit Markdown Source button, or right-click the tab → Reopen Editor With → Text Editor.
• 🗂️ Multi-Tab Preview: One rendered tab per file — open several at once, compare them side by side. Yes, you can finally enjoy multiple rendered markdown files at once.
• 🪟 Split Editor Support: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P → Split Editor works — yes, you can split a rendered tab and get two live previews of the same file side by side, each with its own independent scroll position.
• 📌 Scroll Position Kept Per Tab: Switch away and back, or split a preview — yes, it won't reset your scroll position or steal focus.
• 🖱️ Native Text Selection: Yes, you can double-click words (or click-drag) to select and copy text straight out of the rendered view.
• 🌓 Auto Light/Dark/High-Contrast Theme: Matches your current VS Code theme automatically.
• 📊 GitHub-Style Tables & Syntax Highlighting: Tables, strikethrough, and fenced-code highlighting that best-effort matches your active VS Code color theme by name (e.g. Monokai, One Dark, GitHub Dark/Light, Nord, Night Owl, Tokyo Night). Unrecognized themes fall back to a VS Code–style default light/dark palette. VS Code exposes no API for a theme's exact token colors, so this is name-matching, not a pixel-perfect copy.
• 🧬 Mermaid Diagrams: Fence a code block with ```mermaid and it renders as a diagram, theme-matched to light/dark automatically.
• ➗ LaTeX Math via KaTeX: $E=mc^2$ inline, $$...$$ for display/block math.
• 🔗 Section Anchors: Heading links (#some-heading) jump straight to the right section.
• 🧘 Zero Clutter: No accounts, no telemetry noise, no extra panels — just markdown, rendered well.

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You might also enjoy rEcomment: Rich Markdown & LaTeX Documentation, from the same publisher — it transforms code comments into rich, readable documentation with instant Markdown and LaTeX rendering, right inside Python, Ruby, JS, Go, and more.