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Bug 220490

Summary: Support for Markdown
Product: web Reporter: BullfrogBlues
Component: HTML EditorAssignee: Milutin Kristofic <mkristofic>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: BullfrogBlues, dusty, markiewb, patkoscsaba, phrebejk, pjiricka
Priority: P2    
Version: 7.3   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 235150    
Attachments: Shows Markdown plugin editor and preview

Description BullfrogBlues 2012-10-20 19:52:01 UTC
Markdown support with:

  - Live preview
  - Syntax highlighting

e.g. ReText http://sourceforge.net/p/retext/home/ReText/
Comment 1 BullfrogBlues 2012-12-28 16:31:59 UTC
See also the features in Uber Writer http://uberwriter.wolfvollprecht.de.

Those features inside netbeans would be killer.
Comment 2 patkoscsaba 2013-01-06 13:16:34 UTC
This would be most helpful and a nice enhancement to NetBeans' text editing features.
Comment 3 markiewb 2013-03-07 22:05:10 UTC
Have you tried the external plugin https://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown ? Seems promising. Even Adam Bien likes it http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/markdown_plugin_for_netbeans
Comment 4 Petr Jiricka 2013-05-17 13:50:58 UTC
Yes, the flow-netbeans-markdown plugin looks good. And now the GitHub sources also include a built nbm for the module, so you don't need to build it from sources. Looking forward to when it's published on the Plugin Portal (currently not deemed stable enough).
Comment 5 naitsirch 2014-10-06 19:59:10 UTC
The problem of that plugin is, that it does not have a live preview, which would be a great feature for reading simple library documentations.
Comment 6 markiewb 2014-10-06 20:15:46 UTC
Created attachment 149752 [details]
Shows Markdown plugin editor and preview

(In reply to naitsirch from comment #5)
> The problem [...] is, that it does not have a live preview[...]

Sorry. That is not true. 

Use the splittericon in the editor toolbar to split the editor. Then in the new part switch to "Preview". See screenshot 

I used https://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown/releases/tag/2.0