This editor integrate "ACE syntax highlight editor" and "MarkItUp tags insert editor", easily edit plain text. In the front-end, using "PHP Markdown Extra" to render markdown syntax, which provide extended features from origin markdown.

And the syntax highlighter plugin is "highlight.js", perfectly integrate with Markdown Extra.

I have been looking for a Joomla! Markdown Editor with syntax highlighter, text indent and word wrap for a long time, but there are no one is that what I want. So after few days hard working, I integrate ACE with MarkItUp, I can easily edit plain-text document in Joomla!

It is a FREE extension, enjoy it.

NEW FEATURES IN 1.0.8
- Support auto transform URL to link

FEATURES:
- ACE & MarkItUp editor
- Once upload and install 2 plugins.
- 29 ACE themes.
- 16 hightlight.js themes.
- 4 MarkItUp themes.
- some buttons to inset markdown code.
- 2 button sets: HTML & Markdown
- Automatic convert insert link & image code from Joomla! core editor-xtd buttons as markdown code.
- You can just using Asikart Markdown as a HTML editor.
- Because Markdown can't set style on images & links, we add the "ARTICLE PRETTIFY" functions to auto set image alignment, max width, add img & table classes and force link open new window.

REFERENCE:
- Markdown: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
- PHP Markdown Extra: http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/
- highlight.js: http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
- MarkItUp: http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/
- ACE: http://ace.ajax.org/