Editing Preferences

The Editing preference pane allows you to configure editing behavior for MultiMarkdown Composer.

• Enable Smart Pairs -- When typing the specified opening character of a pair, automatically insert the closing character as well.

• "Type over" periods -- If the cursor is in front of a period, typing period will move the cursor over the character, instead of typing a new period.

• Autocomplate labels -- Offer automatic suggestions when typing inside square brackets ([...])

  • Including footnotes? -- Should footnote labels be included?

• Use elastic tabstops -- Automatically line up tabs in the document using the elastic tabstops concept. Great for metadata and tables.

• Continuous spell check -- Enable OS X continuous spell check when typing?

• Correct spelling automatically -- Enable OS X spell check correction when typing?

• Continuous grammar checking -- Enable OS X continuous grammar check when typing?

• Smart quote replacement -- Enable OS X smart quote substitution when typing?

• Smart dash replacement -- Enable OS X smart dash substitution when typing?

• Text replacement -- Enable OS X text replacements when typing?

• Append '#' to end of headings -- Automatically set trailing number of '#' characters on headers after hitting return.

• Apply "Title Case" capitalization to headings -- Automatically capitalize headings after hitting return.

• Automatically format next list item -- Prepare the list marker for the next item after hitting return inside a list.

  • Skip line between list items -- Insert a blank line between list items when hitting return.
  • Duplicate current line spacing -- Insert blank line before next list item, if the current list item has a preceding blank line.

• Automatically insert '>' in blockquotes -- Insert blockquote marker automatically when hitting return inside a blockquote.

• Automatically indent new lines in verbatim -- Automatically insert leading tab(s) when hitting return inside an indented verbatim block (code block).

• Automatically format next line in tables -- Automatically insert leading '|' marker when hitting return inside a table.