markdown-mode v2.7

• New Features:

  • Variable markdown-follow-link-functions extends
    markdown-follow-link-at-point similarly to Org's
    org-open-at-point-functions, allowing other libraries to
    handle links specially. GH-780
  • Support media handler for images and drag and drop images GH-804
  • Add functions to move to the beginning and end of lines
    (markdown-beginning-of-line and markdown-end-of-line), and the
    variable markdown-special-ctrl-a/e, like Org mode.
  • Trailing whitespace characters for line breaks are hidden when using
    markdown-hide-markup
  • fill-paragraph considers GFM alert syntax GH-838
  • Add new flag markdown-wiki-link-retain-case GH-839

• Bug fixes:

  • Don't highlight superscript/subscript in math inline/block GH-802
  • Fix table alignment when a column has a seperator in code block GH-817
  • Fix the regexp in the download languages script GH-827
  • Don't hide backslashes in code blocks when using markdown-hide-markup
    and markdown-fontify-code-blocks-natively together [GH-766][]
  • Fix markdown-fontify-whole-heading-line regression GH-848
  • Fix using fundamental-mode issue when editting code block GH-868
  • Fix highlighting URL in angle brackesGH-822

• Improvements:

  • Apply url-unescape against URL in an inline link GH-805
  • Show mode toggle message only if it is called interactively
  • Copy markdown-css-paths in the output buffer GH-834
  • Change temporary buffer name according to the Emacs naming convention GH-848
  • Mark markdown-css-paths safe as file local variables GH-834
  • Resolve style sheets in markdown-css-paths relative to the Markdown file
    (if the path starts with ./ or ../) GH-855 GH-870
  • Don't insert list item in code block GH-841
  • Don't set mouse face if markdown-mouse-follow-link is nil GH-879

markdown-mode v2.6

• Breaking changes:

  • GNU Emacs 27.1 or later is required.
  • Don't allow space between label and text in reference link same as CommonMark GH-774
  • Whitespace is required before the closing sequence of an atx header. GH-778

• New Features:

  • Introduce markdown-fontify-whole-heading-line variable for highlighting
    whole header line. GH-705 GH-773
  • Backslashes in escape sequences are now treated as markup. GH-377

• Improvements:

  • markdown passes buffer-file-name as a parameter to
    markdown-command when markdown-command-needs-filename is
    t and markdown-command is a function.
  • Support newer version Eldoc ships with Emacs 28.
  • Don't spell-check against pandoc references. GH-572
  • Support tree-sitter-based major modes used by Emacs 29.
  • Highlight "geo" URI scheme GH-739
  • clear-image-cache to make toggle inline image update.
  • Highlight autolinks if a scheme is valid and it is not registered in markdown-uri-types
    GH-743
  • Improve horizontal rule rendering in markdown-view-mode GH-753
  • Don't load major-mode if it isn't in auto-mode-alistGH-761
  • Improve markdown-insert-table prompt message GH-771
  • Consider major-mode-remap-alist to determine major-mode for code blocks GH-787
  • Set marker after footnote reference GH-793
  • Improve putting text attribute for indented blocks GH-794

• Bug fixes:

  • Don't override table faces by link faces GH-716
  • Fix invalid italic fontification after bold markupsGH-731
  • Fix markdown-live-preview-mode fails when eww-auto-rename-buffer is non-nilGH-737
  • Fix to mistake to handle the line as delimiter rowGH-747
  • Fix wrong displaying horizontal rule in markdown-view-mode GH-747
  • HTML-escape title in markdown-add-xhtml-header-and-footer markdown-xwidget-issue-9
  • Fix wrong inline link parsing that has link titleGH-762
  • Don't treat backslashes as escapes inside literal blocksGH-766 GH-768
  • Fix markdown-enter-key doesn't delete empty checkbox listGH-786

markdown-mode v2.5

• Breaking changes:

  • markdown-do supports following link GH-666
    This changes behavior of markdown-do at table

• New features:

  • Introduce markdown-mouse-follow-link variable GH-290
  • Option to define a markdown-link-make-text-function function
    to automatically define a default link text before prompting the user.
  • Option to inhibit the prompt for a tooltip text via
    markdown-disable-tooltip-prompt.
  • Introduce markdown-ordered-list-enumeration variable GH-587
  • Search wiki link under project
  • Add markdown-insert-foldable-block function GH-598
  • Add markdown-table-align-p flag GH-625
    Control table alignment after table operation
  • Support highlighting syntax like Obsidian, Quilt. GH-652

• Improvements:

  • Correct indirect buffer's indentation in markdown-edit-code-block GH-375
  • Cleanup test code
  • Strip query parameters from local file name at displaying inline images GH-511
  • Improve forward/backward sentences which are wrapped markup characters GH-517
  • Improve fontification for nested meta data GH-476
  • markdown-cycle accepts universal-argument like org-cycle GH-530
  • Improve mode check for derived modes GH-532
  • Improve for file which contains many comments GH-536
  • Improve for file which contains many pre blocks GH-512
  • Enable flyspell check at yaml metadataGH-560
  • Clean up Makefile
  • Support to display local image with percent encoding file path
  • Add ability to resize inline image display (markdown-toggle-inline-images) without Imagemagick installed in the computer (emulating Org Mode)
  • Support including braces around the language specification in GFM code blocks
  • Improve markdown-insert-{bold,italic} when region starts with spacesGH-613
  • Disable buffer-read-only if possible when markdown-mode is called GH-622
  • Generate the defface via a macro rather than a function.
  • Memoize markdown--first-displayable to avoid performance
    problems.
  • Allow the use of add-function on
    markdown-table-at-point-p-function.
  • Comment out redundant bindings and use the more standard RET
    name for C-m.
  • Give markdown-table-at-point-p-function a non-nil default.
    Simplify markdown-table-at-point-p accordingly.
  • Auto set sh-shell when markdown-edit-code-block enter indirect buffer with sh-mode
  • Add value check and avoid raising the exception at markdown-edit-code-block GH-663
  • Add NonGNU ELPA badge to README and website
  • Support plus/negative(also Unicode minus sign) exponent in super script GH-346

• Bug fixes:

  • Fix issue with nil being returned from markdown-imenu-create-nested-index [GH-578][]
  • Fix remaining flyspell overlay in code block or comment issue GH-311
  • Fix inline URL regular expression which starts/ends with spaces GH-514
  • Fix GFM italic fontification for one character GH-524
  • Fix markdown-table-forward-cell at last column issue GH-522
  • Fix GFM bold fontification with underscore issue GH-525
  • Fix wrong fontification words between strong markups GH-534
  • Fix wrong italic fontification just after code block GH-548
  • Fix too indended list face issue GH-569
  • Fix creating imenu index issue when there is no level-1 header tooGH-571
  • Fix highlighting consecutive HTML commentsGH-584
  • Fix markdown-follow-thing-at-point failing on subdir search GH-590
  • Fix markdown-table-backward-cell so it always goes back a single cell
  • Fix markdown-table-align to detect delimiters surrounded by spaces
  • Fix customization for markdown-mouse-follow-link and
    markdown-table-align-p
  • Fix accessing locations beyond point-max in
    markdown-syntax-propertize
  • Set syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions buffer-locally
    instead of globally
  • Modify only the buffer-local part of
    syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions.
  • Fix list highlighting issue in code block GH-631
  • Fix exception when inserting code block at end of buffer GH-634
  • Fix table operations when table column contains escaped vertical bars GH-635
  • Fix issue that executing markdown-table-sort-lines via menu-bar with older Emacs(< 28) GH-641
  • Fix wrong markdown table command issue in menu GH-639
  • Fix table conversion issue GH-639
  • Fix fill paragraph issue with setext heading GH-638
  • Fix line break highlighting issue at end of buffer GH-621
  • Fix URL highlighting which contains comma or parentheis GH-649
  • Fix eldoc function issue with markdown-toggle-url-hiding GH-674
    Thanks to Ta Quang Trung for a patch
  • Fix markdown-enable-math exception issue GH-676
  • Fix markdown-marginalize-headers rendering in tty mode GH-677
  • Fix table and list fontification GH-680
  • Fix invalid code block highlighting GH-684

markdown-mode v2.4.

• Breaking changes:

  • GNU Emacs 25.1 or later is required. And xemacs support has been dropped
  • Face variables, such as markdown-italic-face are now
    obsolete. Use face names directly in code and customizations.
    The face names themselves are unaffected, so this shouldn't
    affect most users.
  • Delete obsoleted aliases
  • Internal variables markdown-font-lock-keywords-basic and
    gfm-font-lock-keywords are now obsolete.
    markdown-font-lock-keywords is now used instead, but users
    should use font-lock-add-keywords instead of modifying this
    variable.
  • markdown-mode now adds entries to the beginning of
    auto-mode-alist rather than the end. If you were relying on
    the previous behavior in order to override these entries, you
    should fix the problem by following best practice and ensuring
    that your user configuration is loaded after the autoloads for
    markdown-mode are evaluated. ([GH-331][], [GH-335][])
  • Point at the end of fenced code blocks is no-longer considered
    part of the code block ([GH-#349][]).
  • Enable markdown-fontify-code-blocks-natively in gfm-view-mode. ([GH-#451][])

• New features:

  • GFM task list item (checkbox) insertion with C-c C-s [, or
    as a final fallback for markdown-do (C-c C-d). Thanks to
    Akinori Musha for a patch. (GH-229)
  • Optionally move leading atx heading markup to the left margin
    when markdown-marginalize-headers is non-nil. Thanks to
    Alexis Gallagher for a patch. ([GH-272][], [GH-274][])
  • Added pipe table editing features. Thanks to Dmitry Safronov
    for a patch. (GH-171, [GH-266][])
  • Font lock for HTML tags and attributes, with new faces
    markdown-html-tag-name-face,
    markdown-html-tag-delimiter-face,
    markdown-html-attr-name-face, and
    markdown-html-attr-value-face. ([GH-249][])
  • Font lock for HTML entities, with a new face
    markdown-html-entity-face.
  • Scale down large inline images using markdown-max-image-size,
    a cons cell of the form (max-width . max-height).
  • Added read-only viewing modes markdown-view-mode and
    gfm-view-mode with keymaps similar to view-mode and
    help-mode. ([GH-296][])
  • Optionally add footnote definitions to the end of the imenu
    index using markdown-add-footnotes-to-imenu. (GH-235)
  • Add custom variables markdown-xhtml-body-preamble and
    markdown-xhtml-body-epilogue for wrapping additional XHTML
    tags around the output. ([GH-280][], [GH-281][])
  • Add markdown-unused-refs command to list and clean up unused
    references (available via C-c C-c u). ([GH-322][])
  • Add markdown-insert-table (C-c C-s t) for interactive
    table insertion. ([GH-369][])
  • Add markdown-kill-outline and markdown-kill-block
    functions.
  • Added markdown-display-remote-images for viewing remote
    images. Thanks to Sean Allread for the patch. ([GH-378][])
  • markdown-back-to-heading can be used as command ([GH-415][])

• Improvements:

  • Insert references before local variables. Thanks to Philipp
    Stephani for a patch. (GH-216, [GH-262][])
  • Allow markdown-command and markdown-open-command to be
    functions. ([GH-255][], [GH-263][])
  • Save the buffer before running markdown-open-command and run
    markdown-open-command asynchronously. Thanks to Dmitry
    Safronov for a patch. ([GH-248][])
  • New user option markdown-translate-filename-function to translate
    filenames when following file links. ([GH-268][], [GH-277][])
  • Support double-backslash math delimiters. ([GH-270][])
  • New user option markdown-export-kill-buffer to kill or preserve
    HTML export output buffer. (GH-224)
  • Add custom variables markdown-edit-code-block-default-mode
    and markdown-fontify-code-block-default-mode to specify default
    modes for indirect editing and fontification of code blocks.
    ([GH-251][], [GH-303][])
  • Insert-and-indirect-edit GFM code blocks simultaneously by
    giving a prefix argument to C-c C-s C. ([GH-251][])
  • Improve package load time by deferring calls to
    char-displayable-p. ([GH-264][])
  • Only raise footnotes when markup hiding is on.
    Footnote display properties may now be customized via
    markdown-footnote-display. ([GH-247][])
  • Customizable subscript and superscript display properties
    via markdown-sub-superscript-display.
  • Several font-lock performance improvements.
  • Support horizontal rules consisting of underscores.
  • Change default character encoding to UTF-8.
    ([GH-340][], [GH-350][])
  • Support more markdown extensions same as Vim
  • Complete link text from link labels at inserting link. ([GH-421][])
  • Improve regular expression for inline attributes. ([GH-406][])
  • Allow relative CSS stylesheets paths. ([GH-389][])
  • Improve regular expression matching for inline attributes. ([GH-389][])
  • If user set display-buffer-alist then use display-buffer. ([GH-413][])
  • Add custom variable for opening image. ([GH-383][])
  • Improve default markdown-command setting
  • Use markdown-command directly instead of 'sh -c' ([GH-319][])
  • Use explicitly numbered group as possible for easy reading regexp
  • Support list of strings of markdown-command
  • Apply markdown-translate-filename-function for markdown-display-inline-images
    ([GH-422][])
  • Implement own filter-buffer-substring-function for markdown-view-mode and
    gfm-view-mode ([GH-493][])
  • Improve triple backtick behavior with electric-pair-mode
  • Update code block language list

• Bug fixes:

  • No longer treat code fragments that are delimited with three
    backquotes on each side as the beginning of a code block.
    ([GH-403][])
  • Fix infloop caused by incorrect detection of end of code
    blocks ([GH-349][]).
  • Remove GFM checkbox overlays when switching major modes.
    (GH-238, [GH-257][])
  • Don't test the value of the composition property to avoid
    failing tests. ([GH-246][], [GH-258][])
  • Fix types for markdown-open-command, markdown-uri-types,
    and markdown-hr-strings defcustoms. ([GH-254][], [GH-259][])
  • Don't insert trailing whitespace when inserting a blockquote.
    (GH-227, [GH-260][])
  • Make wiki link test work even when /tmp contains an
    inaccessible subdirectory. ([GH-261][])
  • Fix markdown-inline-code-face's :inherit attribute.
    ([GH-252][])
  • Fix type of customizable markdown-css-paths variable.
    ([GH-276][])
  • Don't set markdown-code-face background color at package
    load time. ([GH-273][])
  • Don't clobber user specified font-lock keywords when toggling
    features. (GH-222)
  • Fix font-lock for inline code inside italics and bold.
    ([GH-275][])
  • Make code block language detection handle unspecified
    or unknown code block languages. ([GH-284][])
  • Fix precedence of inline code over inline links.
  • Improve error reporting for markdown and markdown-open.
    ([GH-291][])
  • Fix M-RET binding for terminals. ([GH-317][])
  • Do not fail displaying inline images on empty links. ([GH-320][])
  • Fix off-by-one error in markdown-inline-code-at-pos.
    ([GH-313][])
  • Fix bounds during inline comment syntax propertization. ([GH-327][])
  • Fix wrong metadata highlighting. ([GH-437][])
  • Fix wrong italic highlighting in HTML attributes. ([GH-410][])
  • Fix markdown-follow-thing-at-point issue for continuous links. ([GH-305][])
  • Fix wrong setting major-mode issue at following wiki link([GH-427][])
  • Fix not consider markdown-list-indent-width issue([GH-405][])
  • Fix URL open issue which contains end parentheses ([GH-408][])
  • Follow link even if it is in header([GH-430][])
  • Fix clean up list number issue([GH-392][])
  • Fix insert markup functions in consecutive case([GH-283][])
  • Fix hide markup issue in markdown/gfm-view-mode([GH-468][])
  • Fix bold regexp issue([GH-325][])
  • Fix italic and punctual character issue([GH-359][])
  • Fix table align issue when column contains escaped bar([GH-308][])
  • Fix nested block fill-paragraph issue([GH-366][])
  • Fix table transpose issue with wiki link
  • Fix indent-region for pre block(GH-228)
  • Fix link highlight issue which contains escaped right bracket([GH-409][])
  • Fix math inline single/double highlight issue([GH-352][])
  • Fix markdown-table-forward-cell escaped vertical bar issue([GH-489][])
  • Fix markdown-table-backward-cell escaped vertical bar issue
  • Fix GFM italic markup issue([GH-448][])