
The text will have a white background, but only where there’s text the rest of the document will keep its dark background making the whole thing difficult to read (and terrible looking.) Unfortunately if you use Notepad++ with a dark-mode type of theme (light text on dark background) the way Notepad++ highlights Markdown hurts more than it helps. And it can assist skimming large marked down documents.

Nevertheless some coloring can help to spot errors such as accidentally indented blocks of text or badly formed lists. Markdown on its own tries to look readable and doesn’t need extensive syntax coloring or highlighting. It also explains how to get the highlighting to work better / differently for different mark-down flavors. Update: Here is a repo I discovered after writing this post with pre-defined dark themes. You have to manually edit a special Markdown theme to change most of the colors and fonts. This is especially apparent when using a dark-mode Notepad++ style and dark theme in Windows. Own stylesheets work fine.Changing the default Notepad++ theme doesn’t change most of the colors in a Markdown document. Simply enter your CSS file in the plugin options. Tip: You can also use your own style sheets for the preview.

An AsciiDoc preview for Notepad++ via Chrome. However, it is not as convenient as the combinations Notepad++/Markdown or VSC/AsciiDoc. If you place the windows neatly next to each other, you can work properly. It is then updated at the set interval after saving. You can now preview the preview from Notepad++ via CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R open in Chrome. In the plugin options you can, for example, set the update interval or activate the preview for TXT files - files with the extensions ad, adoc, asc and asciidoc are rendered by default.

AsciiDoc syntax highlighting in Notepad++. You can then either select the language manually from the list as usual or simply add the appropriate endings to files, for example.

file in Notepad++ via Define Languages/Custom Language/Own Languages import.userDefineLang.xml from GitHub alternatively.There are precise instructions here at Asciidoctor the short form: STRG+PĮxt install asciidoctor.asciidoctor-vscode If you don't feel like it and are not tied to Notepad++: Visual Studio Code provides an AsciiDoc plugin directly via the integrated marketplace.
