Display markdown outline view through Functionlist

PeterJones

I interpreted it as someone sharing a hack / tip / trick to be able to use the FunctionList feature to give an outline of a markdown document. I didn’t try it (yet), but I think sharing hacks, tips, and tricks is a great thing to have in this forum, which is why I upvoted it.

It should be noted that users will need to use their association ID for markdown, if their Markdown UDL doesn’t happen to be called Markdown(Monokai). If you use the default Markdown UDL that ships with Notepad++, it’s Markdown (Default).

I just confirmed that replacing Markdown(Monokai) with Markdown (Default), and doing a simple markdown file, worked as expected:

MAPJe71

See also issue 5986 and issue 5945.

Alan Kilborn

@PeterJones said in Display markdown outline view through Functionlist:

I think sharing hacks, tips, and tricks is a great thing to have in this forum, which is why I upvoted it.

I agree with that. However, if you’re going to share something, at least put a little effort into describing what it means and how to use it. Clearly from my earlier comment, I at least had no idea…

Michael Vincent

@linpengcheng

Awesome - thanks!

Didn’t work exactly like I wanted - it would highlight the line above the heading so I did a slight modification:

            <parser
                displayName="Markdown"
                id         ="Markdown"
                commentExpr=""
            >
                <function
                    mainExpr="(?x)((?:^|\n)[#]+\s+(.*?)(\r*|\n*)$)">
                    <functionName>
                        <nameExpr expr="(?:[#]+\s+)(.*)"/>
                    </functionName>
                </function>
            </parser>

Cheers.

PeterJones

@Michael-Vincent said:

it would highlhght the line above

True.

But the original was intended to catch the daring-fireball-style header-above------or-====, which yours didn’t catch.

I combined both philosophies:

    <function
        mainExpr="(?x-s)(^[#]+\s*(.*?)$|^(.*)(?=[\r\n]+^([-=])\4{2,}\s*$))"
    />

# H1
Text
## H2
Blah
### H3
here
### H3.2
yo
## H2.2
something
# H1
heheheh

DaringFireballUnderline- Indicated Header Too
-----
DaringFireballUnderline= Indicated Header Too
===
Not sure that mixed =-=- should be header
=-=-=
Normal text
# END

This version catches either style, doesn’t require a space after the # for the header (I’ve seen some markdowns that don’t require that space); for the underline style, I made the executive decision that it only counts if it’s all-hyphen or all-equal, so mixed-hyphen-equal will not trigger the header recognition

This could be endlessly tweaked for everyone’s markdown-interpreting preferences. :-)

MAPJe71

Or try this one:

			<!-- ======================================================== [ Markdown ] -->

			<!--
			|   Based on:
			|       https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5945
			\-->
			<parser
				displayName="[TODO] Markdown"
				id         ="markdown_header"
				commentExpr="(?x)                                               # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`)
						(?ms:                                                   # Code block
							^                                                   # ...at start-of-line a
							(?'BLOCK'\x7E{3}(?!\x7E)|\x60{3}(?!\x60))           #    block-start indicator
							\w*\h*$                                             #
							.*?                                                 # ...whatever,
							^\x20{0,3}                                          # ...optional indentation for a
							\k'BLOCK'                                           #    block-end indicator
							\h*$                                                #    with trailing white-space only
						)
					"
			>
				<function
					mainExpr="(?x)                                              # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`)
							(?m-s)                                              # ^ and $ match at line-breaks, dot does not
							^                                                   # at start-of-line
							(?'NOCODE_INDENT'
								\x20{0,3}(?!\x20)                               # indent of 3 spaces max, otherwise it's code
							)
							(?:                                                 # ATX-style heading
								(?'LEVEL'\x23{1,6}(?!\x23))                     # nr. of hashes indicate level
								\h+                                             # at least one white-space
								\K                                              # discard text matched so far
								(?:
									[^\r\n\x5C]
								|	\x5C.                                       # backslash escape sequence
								)+
								(?:                                             # closing sequence
									\h+                                         # ...starts w/ at least one white-space
									\x23+                                       # ...contains only hashes, amount arbitrary
								)?                                              # ...is optional
								\h*$                                            # trailing white-space up till line-break
							|                                                   # Setext-style heading
								\K                                              # discard text matched so far
								[^\r\n]+                                        # whatever,
								(?=                                             # ...up till
									\h*(?:\r?\n|\n?\r)                          # ...any trailing white-space and a line-break,
									(?&amp;NOCODE_INDENT)                       # ...indent for header indicator
									(?:={3,}|-{3,})                             # ...H1- or H2-header indicator resp.,
									\h*$                                        # ...trailing white-space up till line-break
								)
							)
						"
				>
					<functionName>
						<nameExpr expr="(?x)
								(?|
									(?:\h+\x23+\h*$)
									[^\r\n]+
									(?=
										\h+\x23
									)
								|	.*
								)
							"
						/>
					</functionName>
				</function>
			</parser>

linpengcheng

@linpengcheng said in Display markdown outline view through Functionlist:

(?:^|\n)[-]{3,}\s*(\r*|\n*)$

This paragraph is used to write Marp-markdown-Slide, I use marp-cli to generate Slide.

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Ernesto Saavedra

@MAPJe71 The parser works nicely. However indentation is lost (Subtitles, Subsubtitles, … are listed at the same level). Is there somehow a way to replace the ‘#’ with a empty space or ‘_’ but only for the visualization in the function list?
Best regards and thanks for contributing and sharing

PeterJones

@Ernesto-Saavedra said in Display markdown outline view through Functionlist:

Is there somehow a way to replace

Sorry, the functionList processing is a match-search, not a search-and-replace.

You can make a single-level hierarchy by doing a “class” vs “function” in the definition, as described in the function list overview and function list config files documentation, or in @MAPJe71’s FAQ Desk: Function List Basics entry.

Theodan23

@Ernesto-Saavedra said in Display markdown outline view through Functionlist:

@MAPJe71 The parser works nicely. However indentation is lost (Subtitles, Subsubtitles, … are listed at the same level). Is there somehow a way to replace the ‘#’ with a empty space or ‘_’ but only for the visualization in the function list?
Best regards and thanks for contributing and sharing

I found a way to prevent the indentation from being lost in @MAPJe71 's parser (which I prefer to the others, as it seems more complete).

Whatever the <function> block matches gets passed to the <functionName> block, so our problem is that the <function> block is discarding the hashes due to the two \K lines. So I removed them, and pulled them up to a common point, where it should no longer discard the hashes:

			<!-- ======================================================== [ Markdown ] -->

			<!--
			|   Based on:
			|       https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/5945
			\-->
			<parser
				displayName="[TODO] Markdown"
				id         ="markdown_header"
				commentExpr="(?x)                                               # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`)
						(?ms:                                                   # Code block
							^                                                   # ...at start-of-line a
							(?'BLOCK'\x7E{3}(?!\x7E)|\x60{3}(?!\x60))           #    block-start indicator
							\w*\h*$                                             #
							.*?                                                 # ...whatever,
							^\x20{0,3}                                          # ...optional indentation for a
							\k'BLOCK'                                           #    block-end indicator
							\h*$                                                #    with trailing white-space only
						)
					"
			>
				<function
					mainExpr="(?x)                                              # free-spacing (see `RegEx - Pattern Modifiers`)
							(?m-s)                                              # ^ and $ match at line-breaks, dot does not
							^                                                   # at start-of-line
							(?'NOCODE_INDENT'
								\x20{0,3}(?!\x20)                               # indent of 3 spaces max, otherwise it's code
							)
							\K                                                  # discard text matched so far
							(?:                                                 # ATX-style heading
								(?'LEVEL'\x23{1,6}(?!\x23))                     # nr. of hashes indicate level
								\h+                                             # at least one white-space
								(?:
									[^\r\n\x5C]
								|
									\x5C.                                       # backslash escape sequence
								)+
								(?:                                             # closing sequence
									\h+                                         # ...starts w/ at least one white-space
									\x23+                                       # ...contains only hashes, amount arbitrary
								)?                                              # ...is optional
								\h*$                                            # trailing white-space up till line-break
							|                                                   # Setext-style heading
								[^\r\n]+                                        # whatever,
								(?=                                             # ...up till
									\h*(?:\r?\n|\n?\r)                          # ...any trailing white-space and a line-break,
									(?&amp;NOCODE_INDENT)                       # ...indent for header indicator
									(?:={3,}|-{3,})                             # ...H1- or H2-header indicator resp.,
									\h*$                                        # ...trailing white-space up till line-break
								)
							)
						"
				>
					<functionName>
						<nameExpr expr="(?x)
								(?|
									(?:\h+\x23+\h*$)
									[^\r\n]+
									(?=
										\h+\x23
									)
								|
									.*
								)
							"
						/>
					</functionName>
				</function>
			</parser>

Now the hashes show up for me in the Function List, and show the level of the heading.

Theodan23

As an aside, Notepad++ really should start including all of this in a markdown_preinstalled.xml and associated by default in the overrideMap.xml that it ships with. To ship a product with a “Markdown (preinstalled)” UDL, but not include the Function List functionality for basic navigation seems like an incomplete feature.

PeterJones

@Dan-Ignat-0 ,

For non-programming langauges, like Markdown, there’s probably less concensus among users as whether “headers” or something else is the most likely “function” to include, which is probably why the developer hasn’t included such. But asking the developer (follow our Feature Request / Bug FAQ) to include the FunctionList would be reasonable at this stage (though someone would likely have to create the unitTest for him as well, otherwise he might not include it on his own).