Hi John, 

There is a full fledged plugin for markdown support in netbeans at [1]. This 
plugin provides syntax highliting, code structure, code templates, live preview 
and html export. Its based on the depracated pegdown processor. 
You can take a look at it and understand about further integration. 

[1]: https://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown 
(https://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown)

Regards 
Siddhesh Rane 

May 24, 2020 9:45 AM, "John Kostaras" <[email protected] 
(mailto:[email protected]?to=%22John%20Kostaras%22%20<[email protected]>)> 
wrote:
Hallo all,

when you open a github project in Intellij IDEA, it automatically opens the 
README.md file.
When you open it in NetBeans, you only see the raw markdown text.

This simple NetBeans module 
(https://github.com/jkost/MarkdownViewerForNetBeans/ 
(https://github.com/jkost/MarkdownViewerForNetBeans/)) implements the first and 
third of the above screenshots (will provide an implementation of the middle 
screenshot soon). The result looks like so. I used flexmark-java 
(https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java) (which is also used by NetBeans) to 
convert the markdown to HTML to be displayed to a JEditorPane.
Questions:

1. How to integrate it to NetBeans source code if it is found useful? Do I need 
to create a plugin, sign it etc, then import it NB or it is easier with a pull 
request?
2. Not sure which location it should be added. Inside editor, inside ide?

Any comments/suggestions are welcome.

Kind regards,

John.

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