Render Markdown in Emacs buffer

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Personally, I use the following workflow:

  • run on a C-c C-c m to run Mark­down on the cur­rent buffer and pre­view the out­put in an­other buffer.
  • move to html-mode on this other buffer (M-x html-mode)
  • hide the html tags to display something close to the output (M-x sgml-tags-invisible)

Then every time you want to refresh the rendering, simply run again C-c C-c m on the markdown buffer.

Yet I confess until now for Markdown editing/previewing, nothing beats for me Textmate and its markdown preview panel. Actually, from a personal perspective, the only case where I prefer to run Textmate rather than Emacs is when I want to edit markdown files. Yet the path to have the same quality of preview on emacs is not so difficult and probably I should investigate it. As I see it, it’s simply:

  • get the internal css used by Textmate for rendering the preview
  • use w3 or w3m to preview the markdown output using this css

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