
For python3-markdown there are some extensions available that you can enable from the plugin settings, including CodeHilite, New Line To Break, Smarty Pants, Sane Lists, Admonition and WikiLinks, with the possibility of adding extra extensions. Under the hood, this plugin makes use of python3-markdown or pandoc as its backends. Markdown tags may also be inserted using keyboard shortcuts, although you'll only find a few tags / shortcuts right now in the plugin settings, because this feature is work in progress. It adds a right click menu to documents from where you can easily insert Markdown tags like bold, italic, ordered or unordered list, and more, as well as easily insert an image into the file. While it has "preview" in its name, this Gedit plugin also helps with Markdown editing. md document, this being my only issue so far with this plugin. The preview doesn't scroll automatically when scrolling the source.

md file you may also manually refresh the preview by using the refresh button from the left-hand side of the preview window, or via the right click context menu.

The preview is not automatically refreshed by default but you can click the 3-dotted menu at the bottom right-hand side of the preview area and enable Automatically reload from there to have the preview refresh automatically each time you make modifications to the source. This Markdown preview allows zooming in or out, searching, and opening links and images. You can disable this pane from opening automatically, and manually run it from the Gedit View menu, or using a key ( F9 for the side pane and Ctrl + F9 for the bottom pane). md files in Gedit, and when it does it open a pane in the left sidebar or at the bottom of the window with a preview of the Markdown file.

Gedit Markdown Preview is a work in progress plugin that automatically detects when opening. It does support plugins though, and with the help of a plugin called Gedit Markdown Preview, you can add Markdown support to modern Gedit versions (3.22 and newer). Gedit, the default GNOME text editor, doesn't support Markdown by default.
