Vim Markdown
Syntax highlighting, matching rules and mappings for the original Markdown and extensions.
About Vim Markdown
Vim Markdown is a Vim plugin that provides syntax highlighting, matching rules and mappings for the original Markdown and extensions. It installs through managers such as Vundle and Pathogen or from a tarball. Behavior is changed with variables in ~/.vimrc.
Pricing is not clearly stated.
Key features
- Header folding enabled by default with 1-6 level setting
- Conceal bold, italic, code block and link markup without changing source
- TOC window auto-fit that only shrinks from half-screen size
- Restrict text emphasis to single lines
- Highlight fenced code blocks using filetype names
Watch out for
- Requires tabular plugin before vim-markdown in Vundle setups
- Semver managers such as lazy.nvim should follow the master branch
Vim Markdown at a glance
- Category
- Development › Developer Tools
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Details verified
- Oct 22, 2026 · Official source
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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