microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar

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VS Code built-in markdown extension's Textmate grammar

Stars: 78
Forks: 64
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 24
Avg merge: 5h 24m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 3, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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24 open issues indexed

Shortcut reference links incorrectly disallow whitespace Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#195 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
Markdown editor: Bold formatting not rendered when HTML tag starts the line Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#180 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2025
Unsupported builtin languages inside code blocks Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#177 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2025
[Bug] Syntax highlight breaks inside CommonMark list syntax (`1.`s) when surrounding render-unaffective indentation is not 0. Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#172 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 2, 2025
Markdown syntax of emphasize highlighting mismatch with preview Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#171 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Markdown comments not highlighted correctly Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#167 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 18, 2024
(shell) indented multi-line command (using backslash, line continuation \) every 2nd line only Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#166 · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 15, 2024
Support MkDocs fenced codeblock attributes and dot prefixed language Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#153 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 20, 2023
Script tag fails to highlight as JS if contents start with $ Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#148 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2023
Support scopes for code fence attributes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#145 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2023
Support highlighting of markdown tables Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#125 · Opened Dec 5, 2022
Feature request: consistant action as in RMarkdown Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#119 · Opened Sep 2, 2022
Syntax highlighting broken for markdown links that span multiple lines Open

bug help wanted

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#120 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 1, 2022
Asterisks * within square brackets [] within C code blocks breaks italics and coloring Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#105 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 15, 2022
Missed raw code block parsing Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#89 · Opened Jun 11, 2021
Inconsistent syntax highlighting for markdown footnotes Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#87 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2021
Markdown highlighting not working directly after an HTML tag Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#85 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2020
Markdown syntax highlighter colors svg elements red Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#70 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 2, 2020
markdown syntax highlighting doesn't combine bold + italic Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#69 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 13, 2020
BlockQuote while condition is incorrect, scoping doesn't match preview or GitHub Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#56 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2019
Go variable declarations are not rendered correctly in Markdown Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#61 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2018
Italics not applied to word with underscores in it Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#45 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2018
Blocks (code, strong, emphasis) do not capture over new line Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#36 · 4 comments · 20 reactions · Opened Oct 23, 2018
Problems rendering adjacent bold and italics Open

bug grammar help wanted languages basic markdown

microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar#7 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 9, 2018

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