Find better markdown parser/convertor

[gsantner]

Anddown lacks a lot of functionalities. It would be better to replace it with something more powerful. But it should still be lightweight and not a fully bloated library like RxMarkdown, which would pull in RxJava and son on.

[KabbAmine]

Have you considered commonmark-java? Looks like a promising library and quite extensible.

Note that I'm not a java developer, so I'm just assuming from their README that it may be what you need

[sjmduncan]

commonmark-java does look promising, and also like a drop-in replacement for AndDown. I'll see how it performs.

[gsantner]

@sjmduncan Does it support highlighting too? Having both with the catch of one replacement would even be better :D (but no must)

[sjmduncan]

@gsantner Would be nice! It seems possible even!

It might not be all that easy. There's some relevant discussion here here and a fork which addresses that issue (but has lower performance). There's also the extension API. I haven't looked at anything in much detail yet.

[sjmduncan]

I've replaced AndDown with commonmark-java since it was mostly trivial, the one drawback is that it's a little slower.

I've started looking to use it for syntax highlighting but haven't decided what the best way to do that is. For the moment syntax highlighting won't quite match the preview.

[gsantner]

I think in Markor the preview can be slow, as it is done once, so no problem. At edit highlighting it is important to be fast.