🐳 Markdown Syntax Enhanced

Enhanced markdown syntax highlighting for Cursor/VS Code with full TextMate grammar support.

Why?

Cursor's default markdown syntax highlighting only shows a subset of the supposed syntax coloring. This extension overrides it with a comprehensive TextMate grammar that supports all markdown features.

Features

• Headers - ATX (#) and Setext (underline) style
• Emphasis - Bold, italic, bold+italic
• Strikethrough - ~~text~~
• Code - Inline `code` and fenced code blocks with language-specific highlighting
• Links & Images - Inline, reference, and autolinks
• Blockquotes - Nested support
• Lists - Ordered, unordered, and task lists
• Tables - GFM tables
• Footnotes - Definition and reference
• Math - Inline $math$
• HTML - Inline HTML tags
• Emoji - :emoji: shortcodes
• Extended syntax - Highlight ==text==, subscript ~text~, superscript ^text^

Embedded Language Support

Fenced code blocks with language identifiers get proper syntax highlighting:

• JavaScript/TypeScript/JSX/TSX
• Python, Ruby, Go, Rust
• HTML, CSS, SCSS
• JSON, YAML, TOML, XML
• SQL, GraphQL
• Shell/Bash
• C, C++, Java, Kotlin, Swift
• PHP, Lua, R
• Dockerfile, Diff
• And more...

Installation

From VSIX

1. Download the latest .vsix from Releases
2. In Cursor/VS Code: Cmd+Shift+P → "Extensions: Install from VSIX..."
3. Select the downloaded file

From Source

git clone https://github.com/matt-wai/cursor-md-syntaxhighlighting-fix
cd cursor-md-syntaxhighlighting-fix
npm install
npm run package

License

MIT