"GitHub Flavored Markdown" (GFM) for ReText 2.1.5

You may achieve compatibility with GFM by enabling "nl2br" and "fenced_code" extensions. Simply add this line to ~/.config/ReText project/ReText.conf:

     mdExtensions=nl2br, fenced_code

See http://packages.python.org/Markdown/extensions/ for details.

I would recommend you to upgrade to the latest stable version of ReText, which is available in ppa:mitya57/ppa.

Alternatively, you can use the beta version that is in ppa:mitya57/retext-beta, but its handling of extensions is a bit different — see http://sourceforge.net/p/ReText/wiki/Configuration%20file for details.

thanks a lot, i have retext-beta running now with the extensions extra, toc and nl2br.

biggest difference from GFM is that urls are not automatically hyperlinked.
is it possible that urls (like https://launchpad.net ) become hyperlinks automatically?

For future reference:

I have installed ReText 4.

I have cloned https://github.com/r0wb0t/markdown-urlize to /FOOBAR to use it like this:

$ cat bin/retext
#! /bin/bash
PYTHONPATH=/FOOBAR /usr/bin/retext "$@"

I have the following python-markdown config:

$ cat .config/markdown-extensions.txt
toc
nl2br
urlize

and I have the following retext config:

$ cat .config/ReText\ project/ReText.conf
[General]
restorePreviewState=true
previewState=true

This setup works for me and is reasonably similar to GFM.
If you are interested, you can put this somewhere in your wiki.

Thank you very much!

Thanks Dmitry Shachnev, that solved my question.

PS: after cloning markdown-urlize rename the script (urlize.py) to mdx_urlize.py to make things work smoothly.

If you have root access, you could also copy urlize.py to /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/markdown/ without renaming it or tweaking PYTHONPATH.

Sorry for not mentioning that.