markdowny.nvim

Neovim plugin for markdown like keybindings. Similar to notion, discord, slack etc

Install

-- packer
use {
    'antonk52/markdowny.nvim',
    config = function()
        require('markdowny').setup()
    end
}

-- lazy.nvim
{
    'antonk52/markdowny.nvim'
    config = function()
        require('markdowny').setup()
    end
}

Setup Options

• filetypes a table of filetypes to add markdowny keymaps. Default {'markdown', 'gitcommit', 'hgcommit'}

require('markdowny').setup({filetypes = {'markdown', 'txt'}})

Default keymaps

All in visual mode

• <C-k>: Adds a link to visually selected text.
• <C-b>: Toggles visually selected text to bold.
• <C-i>: Toggles visually selected text to italic.
• <C-e>: Toggles visually selected text to inline code, and V-LINE selected text to a multiline code block.

Custom setup

Alternatively to default keymaps you can use custom keymaps without calling setup function, make sure to map to a string rather than a Lua function. Here are the defaults:

vim.keymap.set('v', '<C-b>', ":lua require('markdowny').bold()<cr>", { buffer = 0 })
vim.keymap.set('v', '<C-i>', ":lua require('markdowny').italic()<cr>", { buffer = 0 })
vim.keymap.set('v', '<C-k>', ":lua require('markdowny').link()<cr>", { buffer = 0 })
vim.keymap.set('v', '<C-e>', ":lua require('markdowny').code()<cr>", { buffer = 0 })

To apply the keymaps to specific filetypes, use autocmd:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('FileType', {
    desc = 'markdowny.nvim keymaps',
    pattern = { 'markdown' },
    callback = function()
        -- add custom keymaps here
    end,
})

Acknowledgments

This plugin uses vim.ui.input to prompt for link's href, to have it in a floating window, like in the demo above, you can use dressing.nvim.