Markdown mode
If you also want support strikethrough, emoji and few other goodies, check out GitHub-Flavored Markdown mode.
Optionally depends on other modes for properly highlighted code blocks, and XML mode for properly highlighted inline XML blocks.
Markdown mode supports these options:
- 
        highlightFormatting: boolean
- Whether to separately highlight markdown meta characters (
*[]()etc.) (default:false).
- 
        maxBlockquoteDepth: boolean
- Maximum allowed blockquote nesting (default:
0- infinite nesting).
- 
        xml: boolean
- Whether to highlight inline XML (default:
true).
- 
        fencedCodeBlockHighlighting: boolean
- Whether to syntax-highlight fenced code blocks, if given mode is included, or fencedCodeBlockDefaultMode is set (default:
true).
- 
        fencedCodeBlockDefaultMode: string
- Mode to use for fencedCodeBlockHighlighting, if given mode is not included.
- 
        tokenTypeOverrides: Object
- When you want to override default token type names (e.g.
{code: "code"}).
- 
        allowAtxHeaderWithoutSpace: boolean
- Allow lazy headers without whitespace between hashtag and text (default:
false).
MIME types defined: text/x-markdown.
