Hide distracting pieces of Markdown syntax entirely

[alper]

Would it be possible and/or desired to add a setting to hide markdown syntax in certain cases, say like with the URL element as in this example by Bear:

I can think of a couple of other places where this could be interesting but I wanted to know whether something like thas can be considered at all.

[yzhang-gh]

There is a feature (#185) that I think is more suitable for VSCode. What's your opinion?

[alper]

I'll try out both the things in #185 and fiddle around to see whether something like this is at all possible in vscode.

[yzhang-gh]

In case the original post is too long to read, the visual outcome is #185 (comment) (enable markdown.extension.syntax.plainTheme)

[yzhang-gh]

Feel free to comment if you have more information.

[alper]

No, fine. I'll reopen if I have something more concrete.

[aaaron]

Hi @alper--curious if you ever got further with this? I followed the Highlight advice and links are grayed, but still find them to be distracting and of notsomuch value in edit pane. Would prefer a Bear-like icon, or full obfuscation until you edit like Org Mode or Roam.

[alper]

@aaaron Have not had any time to pursue this.

[memeplex]

I have been flying with markdown.extension.syntax.plainTheme on for a while now and so far so good, it's better than the default but still a far cry from the proposal here. URLs are very disruptive and play bad with wrapping. That said, I tend to use reference links, it's a bit more effort but it pays later when you're using tools that don't sport any form of URL pretiffication.

[yzhang-gh]

Thanks for the feedback. However, it is almost impossible to hide part of the text given the current VS Code APIs. You can check out #929 for more information.