A very simple plugin for the Micro editor to preview markdown using Pandoc.

Pandoc is also the only external dependency needed to run this plugin. I've mainly used and tested this using the latest versions of Micro, so your mileage might vary on other versions.

Add this repo as a pluginrepos option in the ~/.config/micro/settings.json file (it is necessary to restart the micro after this change):

{
  "pluginrepos": [
      "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/weebi/micro-preview/master/repo.json"
  ]
}

In your micro editor press Ctrl-e and run command:

> plugin install preview

or run in your shell

micro -plugin install preview

When installed, the plugin creates the preview command which splits the window vertically and opens a pane on the right side containing the converted markdown.

The preview window should update every time you save, but can also be forcibly updated by running preview again.

For now, the default configuration looks like this:

{
  "preview.input_format": "gfm",
  "preview.output_format": "plain",
  "preview.extra_args": "--reference-links --reference-location=document"
}

All of the possible values for input_format and output_format can be listed using pandoc --list-output-formats and pandoc --list-input-formats.

The value for extra_args can be anything from pandoc --help.