[New Plugin] New Markdown Text Plugin

KnIfER

We already have :

Markdown Panel (C#, IE)
MarkdownViewer++ (C#, HTML-Renderer)

But IE is very old, and they do not support latex/math.

So I decided to write this plugin: the Markdown Text Plugin

An alpha-release has been uploaded to he repo above, but in case you are lazy, here is the link : v0.1.1

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KnIfER

You’ll see serveral placeholders because the plugin was written within one day.

I’ve planned a lot of possible features, but the progress is stalled in choosing a decent browser kernel. Currently I am using miniblink, which is only partialy open sourced :

minilink_x64.dll(~30mb) open sourced main module. include a single-threaded wke browser wrapper.
mb.dll(2mb) non-free extension. include a custom multi-threaded browser wrapper.

( the alpha-release is using both of them. )

linpengcheng

Very good plugin! Can you release the x86 version?

KnIfER

@linpengcheng when it’s stable I’ll build a x32 version

linpengcheng

@KnIfER thanks!

Makwana Prahlad

Hello,@KnIfER
Please try this steps,To [New Plugin] New Markdown Text Plugin

Step 1 :- In the Notepad++ menu bar, click Plugins > Plugins Admin.
Step 2 :- Search for “markdown”, and select MarkdownViewer++, then click the install button.
Step 3 :- Once installed, allow Notepad++ to restart and load up any Markdown file. Then, click the “M” button on the far right of the toolbar to toggle the Markdown preview pane

I hope this information will be useful.
Thank you.

Developing_TE

I am going to continue and finish this plugin project.

I was waiting for the formal release of Edge’s Webview2 actually . I thought it will come along with the newer version of Edge Browser, but months later, it still isn’t there. It turned out that I just to install a “Webview2 runtime”. —— I hope he news is not toooo late :)

Plans:

write some Pimpl code. the old multi-browser code is to long. Need to separate it into Pimpls of miniblink and Webview2.
embed wke maybe . wke is the smallest.
Enrich the features。Turn it into a HTML viewer, into an offline ShaderToy Viewer …

KnIfER

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linpengcheng

@KnIfER If user can define the conversion command line of various file types to html in the options, instead of the native engine of md2html, it will become:

Preview plugins for various file types, not limited to md

pandoc.exe current-file.t2t xx.html
pandoc.exe current-file.rst xx.html
pandoc.exe current-file.adoc xx.html

sql file execution DB query, result convert to html preview

python.exe user_def_query.py xx.sql xx.html

the data file execution python or R language visualization script, result convert to html preview

rscript.exe user_def_data2plot.r xxx.csv x.html

Data preview of various data structures

python.exe user_def_datastruct2html.py xx.java xx.html

Literary Programming using Markdown comments

python.exe user_def_mlp.py xx.py xx.html

linpengcheng

Run the current script automatically and display the html result
Webapp test

linpengcheng

The html(markdown) preview window will become a magic showcase.

linpengcheng

“Preview HTML” plugin can do it.

Notepad++\plugins\Config\PreviewHTML\Filters.ini

[hiccup]
Extension=.hiccup, .hip
Language=hiccup
Command=C:\Notepad++\tools\clj\bb.exe C:\Notepad++\tools\clj\hiccup2html.clj  "%1"

note: bb.exe (babashka) is a native Clojure interpreter for scripting with fast startup.
https://github.com/babashka/babashka

Notepad++\tools\clj\hiccup2html.clj

(use '[hiccup.core :as hiccup])
(->> *command-line-args* 
     first
     slurp
     read-string
     html
     print)

test.hiccup

[:h1 "111" [:br] 
  [:p "abcdfghicg"]]

linpengcheng

update:
hiccup2html.clj

(use 'hiccup.core)
(->> *command-line-args* 
     first
     slurp
     read-string
     eval
     html
     print)

test.hiccup

[:p
  [:h1 "List"]
  [:ul
    (for [x (range 1 4)]
      [:li x])]]

image:

sociobright

This plugin is a life-saver! Thanks to anyone who worked on this!