Markdown-preview does't work in emacs markdown mode

Question

Markdown preview command doesn't work.

I installed markdown-mode.el on emacs by using package-install. Then I created test.md file as a trial. Syntax hi-lighting apparently works fine in the text.

When I used "C-c C-c p" command in order to show markdown preview, I got following error message in backtrace buffer. Even if I saved test.md file in current directory, it still said "No such file or directory". The file is located in "~/workspace/daily_log/test.md."

I tried "M-x markdown-preview" instead of shortcut key. But it doesn't work,too.

Do I make a mistake about usage of markdown-mode? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Error message in backtrace buffer

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "bash.exe")
call-process-region(1 36 "bash.exe" "/tmp/emacsAxnXZ9" #<buffer *markdown-output*> nil "-c" "markdown")
shell-command-on-region(1 36 "markdown" "*markdown-output*")
markdown("*markdown-output*")
markdown-preview()
call-interactively(markdown-preview nil nil)
command-execute(markdown-preview)

my environment

OS: Ubuntu 14.10

emacs: 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.12.2)

markdown-mode: markdown-mode-20140914.1012/

Answer 1

If you inspect the backtrace you'll see that this has nothing to do with your Markdown file.

markdown-preview needs an external markdown command that can generate HTML. It looks like whatever Markdown processor you are using is trying to call bash.exe (not bash) when converting your file.

• You might have installed some Windows-centric Markdown converter.
• You might have customized markdown-command, directly or indirectly causing it to call bash.exe.

Since you are on Ubuntu, a simple apt-get install markdown should give you a decent Markdown that works with markdown-mode's markdown-preview function. After installing markdown at the system level, make sure that Emacs has markdown-command set to markdown (the default value).