How can i enable syntax highlighting for markdown files (.mdown) in Netbeans?

Question

I just realized, that netbeans does not support syntax highlighting for markdown files.

Is there any plugin for netbeans, that enables syntax highlighting for these .mdown files?

Answer 1

UPDATE (2011-Nov-18): To answer your question precisely, there is no certified plugin for markdown available from NetBeans Update Center. I have not seen any good plugin for NetBeans with syntax highlighting functionality for markdown language yet.

There is a emerging community contributed open source NetBeans plugin for markdown at http://github.com/madflow/flow-netbeans-markdown and very soon the code highlighting feature may get added to that project. We should add our comments and desire for getting that plugin released soon to show the demand for that plugin, which will motivate the creator of that plugin to release it soon.