SAS Studio currently supports text, xml and python files in conjunction to the SAS program format. Markdown is a widely used text markup format used in repositories of source code to document the functionality of a project and have the markup rendered in a variety of file formats such as HTML, LATEX, PDF etc. Markdown files are used widely in git hosted repositories and is a defacto standard within the community.
Currently, if a user tries to open a markdown file, the user will be prompted to download the file instead of opening within the application. This stops users from being able to effectively view git repository help docs or create developer and api documentation for SAS projects without leaving SAS Studio and using some other third party application.
Ideally SAS Studio would allow the following:
- Viewing of Markdown files with syntax highlighting of markdown elements
- View rendered markdown as html in a separate tab similar to results rendering currently used for ODS
- Allow creation and editing of files in markdown format with syntax highlighting.
