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Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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How to migrate Markdown files to Emacs org mode format

I've got hundreds of personal notes stored as files in Markdown format, after several years using the VoodooPad personal wiki software for OS X. There's plenty of information available for exporting from org mode to Markdown, but is there an easy…
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GitHub Markdown Mode

Is there an Emacs mode for GitHub Flavored Markdown? GitHub Flavored Markdown adds a number of features to traditional Markdown: underscore handling, url autolinking, strikethrough, and tables. It would be nice to have an Emacs mode that supports…
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How can I use the SE flavor of Markdown in emacs?

I would like to use the SE flavor of markdown in my emacs. The default Markdown mode has some features (backticks and indentation mark code, # makes a header and > also changes the font) but I would also like to have: * to make a list item,…
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Collapse sections in markdown

I use markdown-mode (in conjunction with writeroom-mode) for writing in Emacs. My markdown files generally gets quite large, and I would like to be able to focus on a particular section for extended periods of time. How can I achieve this?…
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How do I do live Markdown previewing as I'm writing it?

How can I do that either in a different buffer or even in the current buffer? I'm trying to do Github README.md and other Github rendering of Markdown (for notes and such),
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How to fix markdown-mode's fill-paragraph?

markdown-mode is pretty good at filling paragraphs overall, but there's one flaw that really bothers me. If a paragraph contains a line which ends in two spaces, it only starts filling never fills that line. For instance, take the following example,…
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Markdown preview in Emacs using pandoc

Platform: Windows 7, Emacs 24.2, Pandoc 1.17.2 Scenario: I am writing a markdown file in Emacs. I need to use pandoc to render the output, because it supports citations (using pandoc-citeproc). Question: How can I preview a pandoc-rendered version…
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How to export Markdown from Org-mode with ``` syntax?

I can export Markdown from Org (using C-c C-e) but #+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC is not exported as i expected as: ```lang ... ```. I would like that the code source will be replaced with ``` (markdown syntax), any suggestion?
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How to set PDF export in polymode-mode to use xelatex engine?

Consider the below MWE of .Rmd file containing Arabic text which needs xelatex engine to be rendered by pandoc. As the documentation of the latter says putting this option would make it: --latex-engine=xelatex. MWE --- title: "Minimal Working…
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backword-sentence and forward-sentence are moving over paragraphs

I use markdown-mode to edit markdown, but it's missing one very useful feature. Whenever I press M-a (backward-sentence) or M-e (forward-sentence) it takes me to the start or end of the paragraph, respectively. I want it to send me to start/end of…
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Markdown Mode: Is there a way to display changes on-the-fly?

I found two ways to display preview of the markdown files in markdown mode. One is C-c C-c p which requires a parser (currently I use pandoc) to preview using browser. The other is C-c C-c l which display preview using eww in emacs buffer. However,…
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How to get align-regexp to help line up Markdown tables properly?

I am trying to line up a text table using align-regexp. A table, before alignment, looks like this: | Alpha | Bravo | Charlie | |-------|-------|---------| | Delta | Echo | Foxtrot | | Golf | Hotel | India | and after alignment should look like…
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Insertion of code blocks in sx.el

In sx.el compose mode, what is the correct way to mark some region as a code block, the way C-k does it on the web interface ?
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How do I get a TOC sidebar of my current buffer?

I would like to write in markdown mode for example and then have a sidebar that shows me a table of contents of the buffer I am currently in.
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How to export a table as a Markdown table when using org-md-export-to-markdown?

The current behavior of org-md-export-to-markdown is to export Org Mode tables as HTML tables. I would like tables to be exported as Markdown tables (as explained here).
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