markdown-here

Markdown Here Visit the website. Get it for Chrome. Get it for Firefox. Get it for Thunderbird. Get it for Opera. Discuss it and ask questions in GitHub Discussions. Markdown Here is a Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email† in Markdown‡ and render them before sending. It also supports syntax highlighting (just specify the language in a fenced code block). Writing email with code in it is pretty tedious. Writing Markdown with code in it is easy. I found myself writing email in Markdown in the GitHub in-browser editor, then copying the preview into email. This is a pretty absurd workflow, so I decided to create a tool to write and render Markdown right in the email. To discover what can be done with Markdown in Markdown Here, check out the Markdown Here Cheatsheet and the other wiki pages. †: And Google Groups posts, and Blogger posts, and Evernote notes, and Wordpress posts! See more. ‡: And TeX mathematical formulae! Table of Contents Installation Instructions Usage Instructions Troubleshooting Compatibility Notes and Miscellaneous Building the Extension Bundles Next Steps, Credits, Feedback, License Installation Instructions Chrome Chrome Web Store Go to the Chrome Web Store page for Markdown Here and install normally. After installing, make sure to reload your webmail or restart Chrome! Manual/Development Clone this repo. In Chrome, open the Extensions settings. (Wrench button, Tools, Extensions.) On the Extensions settings page, click the "Developer Mode" checkbox. Click the now-visible "Load unpacked extension…" button. Navigate to the directory where you cloned the repo, then the src directory under that. The Markdown Here extension should now be visible in your extensions list. Reload your webmail page (and maybe application) before trying to convert an email. Firefox and Thunderbird Mozilla Add-ons site Go to the Firefox Add-ons page for Markdown Here and install normally. Or go to the "Tools > Add-ons" menu and then search for "Markdown Here". After installing, make sure to restart Firefox/Thunderbird! Note: It takes up to a month for Mozilla to approve changes to the Firefox/Thunderbird extension, so updates (features, fixes) will lag behind what is shown here. You can manually choose to install the newest version before it's reviewed from the list of versions: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-here/versions/ Manual/Development Clone this repo. Follow the instructions in the MDN "Your first WebExtension" article. Opera Note that Markdown Here only works with Opera versions 16 and higher (i.e., the ones that are based on Chromium). Go to the Opera Add-ons store page for Markdown Here and install normally. After installing, make sure to reload your webmail or restart Chrome! Usage Instructions Install it, and then… In Chrome/Opera, make sure you reload your web mail page before trying to use Markdown Here. In Chrome/Firefox/Opera, log into your Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo account and start a new email. In Thunderbird, start a new message. Make sure you're using the rich editor. In Gmail, click the "Rich formatting" link, if it's visible. In Thunderbird, make sure "Compose messages in HTML format" is enabled in your "Account Settings", "Composition & Addressing" pane. Compose an email in Markdown. For example: **Hello** `world`. ```javascript alert('Hello syntax highlighting.'); ``` Right-click in the compose box and choose the "Markdown Toggle" item from the context menu. Or click the button that appears on your toolbar. Or use the hotkey (SHIFT+ALT+M by default). You should see your email rendered correctly from Markdown into rich HTML. Send your awesome email to everyone you know. It will appear to them the same way it looks to you. Revert to Markdown After rendering your Markdown to pretty HTML, you can still get back to your original Markdown. Just right-click anywhere in the newly rendered Markdown and click "Markdown Toggle" -- your email compose body will change back to the Markdown you had written. Note that any changes you make to the pretty HTML will be lost when you revert to Markdown. In Gmail, you can also use the browser's Undo command (CTRL+Z / CMD+Z, or from the Edit menu). Be warned that you might also lose the last few characters you entered. Replies In Gmail, Thunderbird, and Google Groups, you can use "Markdown Toggle" normally: just write your reply (top, bottom, inline, wherever) and then convert. The original email that you're replying to will be left alone. (Technically: Existing blockquote blocks will be left intact.) In Hotmail and Yahoo (which don't put the original in a blockquote), and optionally in Gmail, Thunderbird, and Google Groups, you can ensure that only the part of the reply that you wrote gets converted by selecting what you want to convert and then clicking "Markdown Toggle" -- see the next section. Selection/Piecemeal Conversion Sometimes you don't want to convert the entire email; sometimes your email isn't entirely Markdown. To convert only part of the email, select the text (with your mouse or keyboard), right-click on it, and click the "Markdown Toggle" menu item. Your selection is magically rendered into pretty HTML. To revert back to Markdown, just put your cursor anywhere in the block of converted text, right-click, and click the "Markdown Toggle" menu item again. Now it's magically back to the original Markdown. Things to know about converting/reverting a selection If you select only part of a block of text, only that text will be converted. The converted block will be wrapped in a paragraph element, so the original line will be broken up. You probably don't want to ever do this. You can select and revert multiple converted blocks at the same time. One upshot of this is that you can select your entire email, click "Markdown Toggle", and all portions of it that you had converted will be reverted. If you don't have anything se