Fixing Markdown styling in Notepad++

Question

I've got Markdown styles for Notepad++ from this guy. They look very well, and the only, quite annoying, thing I found in them, is that bold (** or __) and italics (* or _) delimiters "works" also, when used inside words. And styler / Notepad ++ does not seek for ending delimiter once, it find opening one.

So, for example, writing something like this:We have to use MANY_MANY relation here causes entire rest of document to be displayed in italics, because _ char in MANY_MANY is taken as starting delimiter for italics (though it is inside a word) and styler / Notepad++ does not seeks for an ending one.

Is there an easy way to workaround this problem or does anyone knows "better" Markdown styles for Notepad++, that does not fall with similar problem? I've heard something, that Notepad++'s styler is a little bit "tough" and problems like above may be impossible to fix. Is that true?

Answer 1

I am the author of UDL and I can confirm that UDL version 2.X can't handle this. If you define delimiter start as _, than every single _ char will trigger delimiter coloring. No exceptions!

Good news is that this feature was already requested by users, and it will be part of UDL 3.0 release. In fact I already implemented it few weeks ago.

Answer 2

The "Edditoria" GitHub repository has a number of bugs (for example, # inside a link is broken) and hasn't been updated in years. After trying out the most active forks, this one is much better.