markdown-toc-auto

Insert and auto-update table of contents on save
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Automatically update table of contents for GitHub wiki.

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Features

  • Insert TOC
  • Automatically update TOC on editor save.
  • Customizable max and min level of header to use. auto update, inlucde link or not.
  • Extract only markdown header by using Atom's scope descriptor used in syntax highlight(So ignore # in embedded code in markdown).
  • Generate link for GitHub wiki
    • Remove invalid char for link
    • Extract inner text(xxx) from <kbd>xxx</kbd> tag and use in link.

How to use

  1. Open markdown editor
  2. From command-palette, invoke "Markdown Toc Auto: Insert Toc". TOC is inserted at cursor position.
  3. Each time you save editor, TOC is automatically updated.
  4. [Optional] You can change following TOC options to control toc generation.
  • min, max: From min to max level headers are subject to generate.
  • update: If true, automatically updated on save.
  • link: If false, link are not generated.

Commands

  • markdown-toc-auto:insert-toc: Insert TOC on cursor position.
  • markdown-toc-auto:insert-toc-at-top: Insert TOC on top of buffer.

Limitation

  • Currently only source gfm editor is supported.
  • And only checked with GitHub Wiki.
  • Header style must start with #.

Why I created yet another package?

  • As exercise.
  • Wanted to correctly ignore embedded code's comment #.
  • Wanted to generate valid link in github wiki(for vim-mode-plus's wiki).

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