Using markdown in GNU Emacs 24.3 on MacOSX

Using markdown is little bit difficult. For easy use and future reference, I am writing this article.

1. Visit below site and look around and get some useful tips.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MarkdownMode

2. emacs markdown mode is now currently managed on below site. Visit and download markdown-mode.el

http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

And place markdown-mode.el to ~/.emacs.d/lisp, if this directory doesn't exists, create it.

3. open ~/.emacs file and add following lines to the end of file or somewhere you want to like below.

;;; Set location for external packages. (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/") ;;; Load markdown (autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode"    "Major mode for editing Markdown files" t) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.text\\'" . markdown-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.markdown\\'" . markdown-mode)) (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.md\\'" . markdown-mode))

4. if you are using homebrew, install markdown parser by typing like below

$ brew update ; brew install markdown ; which markdown /usr/local/bin/markdown

5. And launch Emacs, after loading it go to 

Options->Customize Emacs->Specific Options and then entering "markdown-command"

and set markdown command to '/usr/local/bin/markdown'

6. Enjoy your coding and preview M-x markdown-preview and C-c C-c m. :)