Extended Markdown editor settings

This plugin adds several additional Markdown editor settings. Many of these settings are built in to Joplin's CodeMirror editor.

In Joplin Desktop < 3.1.x: To use this plugin, first enable the beta editor in settings (Options > General > Opt in to the editor beta).

Available settings

• Show line numbers: Shows line numbers to the left of the editor.
• Enable code folding: Adds expand/collapse buttons to the editor gutter.
• Enable autocomplete: Shows a completion dialog in certain code blocks.
• Highlight the gutter for the active line: If a gutter is shown (e.g. for line numbers), the gutter for the current line is shown in a different color.
• Highlight spaces: Makes spaces and tabs visible.
• Highlight trailing spaces: Highlights space characters at the end of lines.
• Highlight selection matches: If text is selected, other visible instances of the same text are highlighted.
• Show background grid pattern: Shows a grid pattern behind the editor's content.
• Show word count: Adds a panel that shows the number of words in the open note. This number is calculated differently from Joplin's built-in word counter.
• Show visual sync indicator: Shows an icon or text panel that indicates Joplin's current sync status.
• Hide Markdown: Hides or replaces formatting markup. For example, clickable checkboxes added to the start of items in checklist markup.
• Text direction (advanced): Allows setting the editor's text direction to right-to-left or left-to-right for all lines, regardless of system language settings.

More information: The "Hide Markdown" setting

The "Hide Markdown" setting hides or replaces Markdown on lines that don't contain the cursor.

In particular, setting "Hide Markdown" to "Some", makes the following changes:

• Checkbox markup: Replaced with checkboxes:
  
• Links: In links in [title](url) format, URLs and brackets are hidden:
  
  At present, clicking links does not follow them.
• Headings: #s are hidden:
  
  Above, the cusror is on the same line as the # Test heading. As a result, its leading # markup is visible.
• Bold/italic/code markup: Formatting characters (e.g. **) are hidden:
  
• Blockquotes: >s are hidden: