Automatic TOC in github-flavoured-markdown

Question

Is it possible to generate an automatic Table of Contents using Github Flavoured Markdown?

Answer 1

For Github's Texteditor Atom check out this awesome plugin (or "package" in Atom-lingo), which generates "TOC (table of contents) of headlines from parsed markdown" files:

markdown-toc

Once installed as Atom-package you can use the shortcut ctrl-alt-c to insert a TOC based on your markdown-doc-structure at the current cursor position...

Screenshots:

Atom Keybindings

markdown-toc gives you the following default key-bindings to control the plugin in Atom:

• ctrl-alt-c => create TOC at cursor position
• ctrl-alt-u => update TOC
• ctrl-alt-r => delete TOC

Plugin Features (from the project's README)

• Auto linking via anchor tags, e.g. # A 1 → #a-1
• Depth control [1-6] with depthFrom:1 and depthTo:6
• Enable or disable links with withLinks:1
• Refresh list on save with updateOnSave:1
• Use ordered list (1. ..., 2. ...) with orderedList:0