I've downloaded VSCode in German and I've set the display language to English as described here. However, the hints for Intellisense are still in German, which is not great for debugging and understanding suggestions/mistakes, since the breadth of information online on programming related issues is in English. I found this SO question that discusses how to do it in VS, but that is over 10 years old and I don't even have the "Tools" tab in VSCode.
How to set UI language in English and IntelliSense hint Language in another language in Visual Studio 2012 ?
I also tried to search for a setting by pressing "Ctrl+," using different keywords, but all I got was highlighting toggles for Intellisense that control highlighting for different code fragments. Using "Ctrl+Shift+P" and searching for "Intellisense" etc. didn't help either.
I really do not want to deinstall VSCode and reinstall it using an English installer just so I can fix this problem, especially since I'm only using VSCode to program C++ for Unreal Engine to begin with and whenever you change something slightly Unreal likes to break things in a fit of capriciousness.
Is there a straightforward way to fix this? Here's an image of what the Intellisense hints look like. I'd love it if they were in English.
To change the language of the Itellisense you should go to the Visual Studio Installer, modify the current installation, then go to "Language Packs" section of the installer and select English. After installing the language pack go inside the IDE: Tools -> Options -> Environment -> International Settings , select English and save changes.
For further details take a look at this link
Ok, so I wasn't able to set any options for this and the only thing that worked was going to a download page of an English installer and running that. I essentially updated my 1.7.3 version of VSCode to a 1.7.4 version using an English installer instead of a German one and that fixed the issue...
Is this stupid or am I stupid?
I use PowerShell as my shell on Windows 7. I find that ConEmu is a really good terminal. Since I am not on Windows 10, I cannot use Windows Terminal but ConEmu is not bad at all. I found out about posh-git and oh-my-posh and how they can customize your PowerShell experience. I installed oh-my-posh and the Paradox theme looked nice. But I saw some empty boxes in random places in my Prompt.
And this is an issue that I face on all the themes. The colors and the design are beautiful and I want to use it but those weird boxes are keeping me from doing that. I would also like to tell that I am using Cascadia Code as my font and also this is the Powerline version of Cascadia Code. So, I think it should work as excepted. Next, trying to fix this, I went to nerdfont.com and I installed Cascadia Code from there as opposed to Microsoft's official GitHub repository. Then I set ConEmu's font to Cascadia which I installed from nerdfonts and this happened:
It's better in a way that I can see the Python symbol and some more symbols but still there is one box that cannot be rendered. But it does get worse if I change repository:
There is a weird question mark after "master". I think I have met all the prerequisites to use oh-my-posh like install posh-git and PSReadLine and having powerline Cascadia Code font and also using ConEmu as they officially suggest. I would absolutely appreciate it a lot if anyone can help me out of this mess and suggest what to do to fix my prompt.
P.S I am using PowerShell 7 Core.
When you see boxes, that means that the font doesn't have that specified character. e.g. there are a lot of specialized fonts that don't have every character location defined.
Right on the oh-my-posh GitHub page, Quote:
In case you notice weird glyphs after installing a font of choice,
make sure the glyphs are available (maybe they have a different
location in the font, if so, adjust the correct $ThemeSettings icon).
If it turns out the character you want is not supported, select a
different font.
Also on the oh-my-posh GitHub page, the font used is:
The fonts I use are Powerline fonts, there is a great repository
containing them. I use Meslo LG M Regular for Powerline Nerd Font
If using Meslo LG M Regular doesn't solve your problem, then you have to manually remap the icons to the correct unicode locations in your chosen font.
For Version 2 of Oh My Posh, you have to edit the $ThemeSettings variable. Follow the instructions on the GitHub on configuring Theme Settings. e.g.:
$ThemeSettings.GitSymbols.BranchSymbol = [char]::ConvertFromUtf32(0xE0A0)
For Version 3+ of Oh My Posh, you have to edit the JSON configuration file to make the changes, e.g.:
...
{
"type": "git",
"style": "powerline",
"powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
....
Posting this response because I followed #HAL9256 's response and it was extremely helpful but I had to take it one step further. If you are using windows terminal, you actually have to set the terminal to use the nerd font. This took me far too long to figure out so hopefully it helps the next person.
In windows terminal, open the settings, then the Defaults on the left blad, then the appearance tab, finally change the fontface to something nerd font
https://www.jondjones.com/media/rhzobluq/customise-your-powershell-prompt-like-a-boss-c.gif
source: https://www.jondjones.com/tactics/productivity/customise-your-powershell-prompt-like-a-boss/
I faced the same issue and solved it by editing the following file: C:\Path\To\Your\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\oh-my-posh\2.0.496\defaults.ps1
Within PromptSymbols, there should be something called VirtualEnvSymbol. Just change the value from the current one to something from the above listed ones. For example,
VirtualEnvSymbol = [char]::ConvertFromUtf32(0x26A1)
I've encounter the same problem and was solved installing the fonts.
Download the fonts at https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases
Unzip
Right click on the font and select "Install the font for all users"
Enjoy !
From : https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
Just install this whole Cascadia Code font and it will work no need to modify the theme settings.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/CascadiaCode/Regular/complete
The challenge:
Provide dynamic web fonts that render acceptably across all major browsers, devices and Operating Systems
The story:
So I had used cufon or sifr in the past and had since abandoned both in favor of #font-face. After using #font-face in production for some time, I made a horrifying discovery. Many fonts (most?) look like crap in Windows XP, regardless of browser. Even in google chrome, XP renders the fonts unacceptably jagged and ugly.
I am aware of why this is happening. After reading many excellent posts on ye olde stack overflow, I understand the issue is NOT of font hinting, but of XP having clear-type set to off be default. So ALL fonts are jagged in XP by default regardless of application.
So... if #font-face works great everywhere BUT XP with clear-type off, and is still superior to cufon what should we be doing?
Possible solutions:
#font-face as default, Cufon with user agent sniffing for windows XP.
(currently using, and very much not loving it)
#font-face alone with yet unknown method of forcing clear-type
Cufon alone :(
Another paradigm all together
Failed solutions:
Adobe Typekit (jagged in XP on their own website!, even though they show a smooth specimen jpeg)
Google Webfonts (same problem with XP)
#font-face alone (same problem with XP)
Cufon so far works everywhere, but just sucks, and offers additional challenges if you are animating anything, or wish to update the text after the fact.
Do you have a solution that works completely cross browser and cross OS? What is the best way to handle this?
I'm pretty sure the web-fonts, which look ugly, are missing some hinting (edit: Nope, even though hinting is still required to make a font look good on windows, the real problem here was the disabled ClearType in XP. However, this answer has a solution anyway).
Unlike font renderers on other operating systems the windows engine relies on hinting information shipped with the font. If the hinting is missing, bad or broken the font will look ugly - simple as that. Luckly there's a way to add some automatically generated hinting to a ttf-font using ttfautohint. After adding the hinting you can generate the different web-font-formats (eof, woff, etc) you need from the enhanced TTF. Additionally you should try to use SVG fonts if font-smoothing is disabled, since they are always rendered with antialiasing.
I've written an article on how to create web-fonts on Pixels|Bytes, which explains how to add hinting to a font and how to use my Font Smoothie script to enable SVG fonts when necessary. Hope this helps :)
PS: I'm aware that linking to my own blog won't be appreciated here, but I think my post describes a good solution to the problem, so I posted it anyway. Please leave a comment if you want me to remove the link and I'll do so.
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-font-smoothing-using-javascript/
This is what I have found works so far. This solution detects jagged fonts, so then we can do something like this: #font-face as standard, and Cufon as fallback.
In my case, I found that the answer does not in fact center on enabling Clear Type in WinXP. Whether Clear Type is enabled or disabled, I find that some of my #font-face English fonts (especially BLACK, SANS-SERIF) look bad in IE7 and IE8. It's sometimes more than just being jagged or having bad anti-aliasing. The big problem I see is that the shape of the font itself (some fonts, not all) seems to squish into something quite unattractive. I found an acceptable solution by following the advice of Torben. Font Hinting was all I needed, and again, that solution has nothing to do with Clear Type being enabled. To get the font hinting app up and running, read the instructions here:
https://gist.github.com/davelab6/3783491
(I used the "ttfautohint-0.95.tar.gz" file here): http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/0.95/
You should also review the documentation, and you need to also install MacPorts (or you will get an error in the Terminal during your build), but since my rep score prevents me from posting more than two URLs, you'll have to Google for that.
Better hinting doesn't mean your #font-face fonts will now look as perfectly smooth and great on IE in WinXP as they do on Macintosh browsers. But I found that the font hinting prevents nasty distortions in the shape of some fonts within IE7 and IE8. To me, that is an acceptable solution.
I can only add that it's rather troublesome to build the ttfautohintGUI on OSX. You have to installed hundreds of MB of software, downloading from multiple locations too, just to build the GUI app. But once done, the app allows you easily to hint your #Font-Face fonts and resolve many WinXP display issues. Just be sure to tick "Windows Compatibility" in the GUI (it's unticked by default). I also unticked the "Add ttfautohintinfo" and "Pre-hinting" options, leaving everything else as their defaults. Click "Browse..." to add your Input File (the font you want to hint), and then copy and paste that path in the Output File, changing the filename to whatever you want it to be. You won't enable the "Run" button unless there is something in both the Input File and Output File fields.
Best wishes.
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Is there a way to display .md files offline so we know what it will look like once it's uploaded in Github? I'm referring to showing the README.md file as it would come out in Github, and not as for editing purposes.
Needs to work on Mac and Windows since I use both.
There are a few Chrome plug-ins that work well. I've been using Markdown Preview Plus.
After install, enable "Allow access to file URLs" in Extensions (menu > More tools > Extensions or enter URL chrome://extensions/ instead).
Then drag-n-drop a Markdown file onto Chrome and use your favorite editor to edit.
I wrote Grip a while ago to do exactly this. It renders exactly like it does on GitHub and provides several additional options too:
In addition to READMEs, Grip can renders GitHub comments and issues
Click through local links to render other .md files
An API to use in your own projects
Export to an HTML file
Install with pip:
pip install grip
Then go to the directory that contains your README file and run:
grip
Pass -h for additional help and options.
Here's a screenshot of Grip rendering Grip's README:
Check it out here.
Atom by Github. Gives you a side by side preview.
Visual Studio Code - the new editor by Microsoft also provides very good support for markdown editing.
You can download it from here.
The editor provides good support to toggle between the markdown code and the preview mode.
It also provides reasonably good intellisense support for all the markdown syntax.
The editor is free for use and is also cross platform (works on Linux, Windows and Mac).
For more details you can check on their website
Late to the party, but have a look at MarkdownPad.
See Python-Markdown-Editor
It is based on :
Python-Markdown
Pygments (code block syntax highlighting)
CodeMirror (javascript code editor)
Bottle
Install with pip :
$ pip install markdown-editor
It features when-you-type preview, code highlight, fenced code blocks, github style
it can be used by commandline :
$ markdown_edit
$ markdown_edit README.md
$ markdown_edit -f readme.html README.md
I created this to build a tool for sending code reviews, it is easily extensible, by importing it as a module you can add custom actions.
I just installed https://github.com/ypocat/gfms. It does a very good job rendering github flavored markdown. It detects changes in your markdown, so you just put your browser and editor side-by-side. It is Node.js, so it should work fine on any platform.
If you have Node.js is installed, the installation is simple:
sudo npm install -g gfms
gfms --port 9999 (in your project directory)
http://localhost:9999/ (open with any browser)
I found a way to view it in PHP. After doing some more snooping I found 2 solutions for offline and online viewing of .md files:
Offline: https://github.com/WolfieZero/Markdown-Viewer-PHP
Online: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus
I recommend the offline version so you can do your editing even while you're doing your business on the throne. :)
There are people who does not use Google Chrome. There is a Firefox add-on called Markdown Viewer which is able to read Markdown files offline.
pandoc is a nice Text-To-Text conversion tool that solves the problem of offline visualization of your Markdown. Just issue:
pandoc -f markdown -t html README.md > README.html
have you tried ReText? It is a nice desktop Markdown editor
I found MarkView Google Chrome extension pretty useful, actually it's working like a charm:
MarkView is a Chrome extention for editing and viewing markdown file with an outline view, support multiple table format styles, code block syntax highlight and Github Flavored Markdown.
Features:
Editing and Viewing markdown file in web page style.
Auto reload local file when file is changed (Post-installation:
select "Allow access to file URLs" option in chrome://extensions/)
Show outline beside the content in scrollable way
Have buttons for GoTop, ViewSource and GoBottom
Support Github Flavored Markdown table styles and code highlight.
Highlight the code area for programming languages(eg. ```ruby)
Support web pages printing with decent outlook(Chrome->File->Print...)
Responsive: when the window size small than 940px, outline section will
automatically hidden; resize bigger than 940px, outline section will display.
MarkView will view all markdown files except those under raw.github.com
because that subdomain only displays the source.
More features have been added to MarkView:
WYSIWYG markdown editor
Themes and Code Styling Selection
Support Footnotes1 ↩
Instant Slides Presentation
Document Custom Styling
Add Theme CSS and Select
Add Code Style and Select
Write CSS, Save and Run
I like the vertical splitter in Downmarker, you can see the changes as you write!
You can use texts as a md viewer and md editor, its lightweight and neat.
Geany has a plugin for markdown which does a fair job, giving you also a Markdown preview in the sidebar. It also runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
To use it, install geany, then install the package geany-plugin-markdown and select it from the plugin manager.
I just coded up an offline markdown viewer using the node.js file watcher and socket.io, so you point your browser at localhost and run ./markdownviewer /path/to/README.md and it streams it to the browser using websockets.
markdownviewer https://github.com/Hainish/markdownviewer/
There is also StackEdit. It will work both online and offline (it uses your browser local storage).
You can also connect it with Dropbox or Google Drive to see files hosted on the cloud.
If you're a vim person, you can try the vim-preview plugin. Simply install it into your ~/.vim directory with your method of choice. Then you can open a Markdown file with vim and use the command :Preview which will open a new window in your browser and display the end result.
Consider Strapdown.
Strapdown is Javascript-based solution that renders the markdown content in the browser, which makes it great for offline-viewing.
From their own description:
Strapdown.js makes it embarrassingly simple to create elegant Markdown documents. No server-side compilation required.
So rename your .md markdown file to .html, and surround it with:
<xmp theme="united" style="display:none;">
# Markdown content here
…
</xmp>
<script src="http://strapdownjs.com/v/0.2/strapdown.js"></script>
and opening in any browser will show rendered HTML. Added bonus: you can easily change the theme.
One of the simplest resources that works well on MacOSX is the Markdown Quick Look plugin found at InkMark. After installing this on OS X 10.9+, you simply select a markdown file in Finder and tap the space bar. I am not certain if the results are correlated 100% with Github but they are pretty good and make for a tiny unobtrusive offline viewer only solution. Mashable also wrote an article on 78 different tools if you'd like other options.
For MAC I use Marked, for Windows I use Muto-Mark. Both support the GH stylesheet.
An easy solution for most situations: copy/paste the markdown into a viewer in the "cloud." Here are two choices:
Dillinger.io
Dingus
Nothing to install! Cross platform! Cross browser! Always available!
Disadvantages: could be hassle for large files, standard cloud application security issues.
For OS X, Mou is very nice, and it comes with two GitHub CSS themes.
Check out Haroopad. This is a really nice #markdown editor. It is free and available for multiple platforms. I've tried it on Mac OSX.
You can use extension called Markdown Syntax Highlighting for Notepad++. It is available on Github
After installation, new option in the Language dropdown will be appeared
From now I use http://marxi.co/. Marxi.co has online and offline version.
I frequently want portable applications. For this, I found
http://cloose.github.io/CuteMarkEd/ (I have just tried it briefly, and it seems to work fine).
http://markdownpad.com/faq.html#portable
RStudio can handle markdown files and convert them into html and pdf. If you already have it, you can use RStudio (it is an IDE for R programming language). It is free and open source, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Remarkable, certainly a great tool.
Note: Not available for Mac
Features:
Live preview
It's free.
Extremely lightweight
Export to HTML, PDF
Download: https://remarkableapp.github.io/
Edit 2022
I use and love Mark Text now. (https://marktext.app)
You may use Scribefire Next.
It's a Mozilla Firefox browser plugin. Just install the extension and fire up Firefox. Customize your toolbar and place the Scribefire shortcut to it. And since it's a browser plugin, you can use it in Mac, Linux and Windows.
When you want to write in Markdown mode, just click Edit Code from the Scribefire window.
Now to meet your purpose, go to Edit Code mode and copy all the texts and paste it to your .md file and upload.
There is no live preview feature for this, you have to toggle Edit Code and Edit Visually to preview your text.
I'm using it in my Linux Mint box:
Update:
It's year 2014, need to add some other awesome tool here for other readers and researchers. Just recently used Brackets + Markdown Preview Extension.