What file uses md extension and how should I edit them

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On GitHub  several projects have README md files  It seems like a simple format file to express text and pictures    I guess there is an editor or syntax explanation somewhere   Where can I find an introduction to  md files

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Yup  just GitHub flavored Markdown  Including a README file in your repository will help others quickly determine what it s about and how to install it  Very helpful to include in your repos

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If you are looking for an editor  I suggest you use http   dillinger io   It is a simple browser-based text editor that can render Markdown on the fly   However  if you prefer an app  and you are using OS X  you could try Mou  It is quite good and full of examples

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Stack Edit is an online markdown editor with the ability to save to Google Drive and DropBox

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Microsoft s Visual Studio Code text editor has built in support for  md files written in markdown syntax   The syntax is automatically color-coded inside of the  md file  and a preview window of the rendered markdown can be viewed by pressing Shift Ctrl V  Windows  or Shift Cmd V  Mac      To see them side-by-side  drag the preview tab to the right side of the editor  or use Ctrl K V  Windows  or Cmd K V  Mac  instead     VS Code uses the marked library for parsing  and has Github Flavored Markdown support enabled by default  but it will not display the Github Emoji inline like Github s Atom text editor does   Also  VS Code supports has several markdown plugins available for extended functionality

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There is an ongoing effort to standardize Markdown and as of now  this is probably the best place to learn about markdown   http   standardmarkdown com

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If you are creating  md files for your  NET solutions I recommend the Visual Studio 2015 extension Markdown Editor as it has a preview panel so you can see your changes in real time   EDIT  This also should now work with Visual Studio 2017

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Markdown is a plain-text file format  The extensions  md and  markdown are just text files written in Markdown syntax  If you have a Readme md in your repo  GitHub will show the contents on the home page of your repo  Read the documentation    Standard Markdown GitHub Flavored Markdown   You can edit the Readme md file in GitHub itself  Click on Readme md  you will find an edit button  You can preview your changes and even commit them from there   Since it is a text file  Notepad or Notepad    Windows   TextEdit  Mac  or any other text editor can be used to edit and modify it  Specialized editors exist that automatically parse the markdown as you type it and generate a preview  while others apply various syntax coloring and decorations to the displayed text  In both cases though  the saved file is still a readable text file   If you want to create an md file with preview and if you prefer not to install any special editors  you can use online editors like dillinger io and stackedit io  They provide live preview  You can also export your files to Google Drive or Dropbox

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Github s Atom text editor has a live-preview mode for markdown files        The keyboard shortcut is CTRL SHIFT M      It can be activated from the editor using the CTRL SHIFT M key-binding and is currently enabled for  markdown   md   mkd   mkdown  and  ron files

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The easiest thing to do  if you do not have a reader  is to open the MD file with a text editor and then write the MD file out as an HTML file and then double click to view it with browser

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Markdown is just a text file which optionally has  md  or  markdown extensions  It can be converted to HTML  To know syntax of Markdown  Check out  GitHub Flavored Markdown   You can use any text editor for markdown  If you are sublime text user  you can check out Markdown Preview plugin which will display the rendered markdown content in browser and updates whenever you change the markdown file   Some of the online markdown editor   Markable dillinger markdownviewer

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markable in is a very nice online tool for editing Markdown syntax

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I suggest StackEdit  It is simple WISIWIG editor  You can use both editor and markdown syntax  There is a quick markdown help syntax there  Undo redo  comments  GoogleDrive  Dropbox interconnection

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The  md stands for Markdown Text  Basically  its just another type of text file  like  txt  I use Notepad   for reading and editing these

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Extension   md  refers to Markdown files   If you don t want to install an app to read them in that format   you can simply use TextEdit or Xcode itself to open it on Mac   On any other OS  you should be able to open it using any text editor  though as expected  you will not see it in Markdown format

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BBEdit will also display MD on the mac   and here is a quicklook plugin to display them when you preview them

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A  md file stands for a Markdown file extension  A popular app for editing these files is Typora

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