Hidden marks

Type **bold** and the stars step aside as soon as you close the pair. Headings, lists, quotes and links work the same way. The file on disk still holds every mark, so any other Markdown app reads it as before.

Choose how marks show

Settings → Editor → Markdown marks has two choices:

• Hide (the default): marks are hidden everywhere.
• At cursor: marks show around the caret, as in a plain Markdown editor.

The same switch is in ⌘K (Hide Markdown marks, Show marks at cursor) and the View menu.

Peek at every mark

Hold ⌥ alone for a moment and every mark on the page shows. Let go and they hide again. Pressing any other key or using the mouse while you hold it cancels the peek, so ⌥← and typing é never trigger it.

Unformat with the marks hidden

With nothing to click on, there are three ways to take a format off:

1. Press the same key again. Inside bold text, ⌘B unbolds the whole span. The other format keys work the same way.
2. Click the format in the selection toolbar. Select the text and click the format that is lit.
3. Press Backspace or Delete at the edge of formatted text. The marks go and the text stays. One ⌘Z brings them back.

If you would rather see and edit the marks yourself, switch to At cursor, or open Source view.

Note

Deleting all the text inside a span removes its marks too, in the same undo step.