Markdown Preview Enhanced is an open source project released under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License. Its ongoing development is made possible thanks to the support by these awesome backers. You can help make this project better by supporting us on GitHub Sponsors, PayPal, or 微信支付 Wechat Pay. Thank you!
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Markdown Preview Enhanced is an extension that provides you with many useful functionalities such as automatic scroll sync, math typesetting, mermaid, PlantUML, WebSequenceDiagrams, pandoc, PDF export, code chunk, presentation writer, etc. A lot of its ideas are inspired by Markdown Preview Plus and RStudio Markdown.
Feel free to ask questions, post issues, submit pull request, and request new features.
For more information about this project and how to use this extension, please check out our documentation ⬇︎
- Open a project folder with File → Open Folder… (opening an entire drive as the workspace skips note indexing — wikilinks, backlinks, tags and the graph — with a warning).
- Open a Markdown file (
.md). - Open the preview — it does not start on its own: right-click the editor and choose Markdown Preview Enhanced: Open Preview to the Side, press ctrl-k v (cmd-k v on macOS), or run Markdown Preview Enhanced: Open Preview from the Command Palette.
See the Keybindings table below for more shortcuts.
This extension does not collect, transmit, or share your data with any external service. The core preview, scroll sync, math typesetting, diagram rendering, and all editor features run entirely on your local machine. No telemetry, no tracking, no phone-home.
- Markdown content — rendered locally; never leaves your machine.
- Math (KaTeX/MathJax) — typeset locally or via a CDN JavaScript library you configure (default: jsdelivr).