Re: How to get markdown preview mode working on Linux?

[David M. Karr]

On 05/19/2016 11:03 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:57 PM David M. Karr 
> <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com <mailto:davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
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>       /usr/bin/bash: markdown: command not found
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>
>
> Well, I have the markdown binary preinstalled on my system in 
> /usr/bin/markdown.
>
> Would do you get when you do "which markdown" in your terminal? .. 
> Looks like you do not have that binary preinstalled.

I suppose I thought it was obvious that I don't have a "markdown" 
executable.  I should have been more explicit about that.
> In that case, download the Markdown source script from 
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/, extract the .pl from 
> that and place it in one of the folders in the environment PATH 
> variable. Or add that dir to the PATH var and restart emacs.

It's funny that none of the markdown preview docs even mentions this.  
Does everyone assume this is always there?
> I have the following in my config.
>
>     (when (executable-find "Markdown.pl")
>       (setq markdown-command "Markdown.pl"))
> If everything went fine, you should see "Markdown.pl" when you do C-h 
> v markdown-command.

Yup, that worked fine, thanks.