Render Markdown in Emacs buffer

Question

Is it possible to present Markdown rendered in an Emacs buffer using Emacs\' own buffer text formatting capabilities? Emacs in graphical environments has rich text presentation

Answer 1

I have this in my .emacs file:

(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(markdown-header-delimiter-face ((t (:inherit font-lock-function-name-face :underline t :weight bold))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-1 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.5))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-2 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :height 1.3))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-3 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :underline t :height 1.2))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-4 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :underline t :height 1.1))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-5 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :underline t))) t)
 '(markdown-header-face-6 ((t (:inherit markdown-header-face :underline t))) t))
(put 'set-goal-column 'disabled nil)

which enlarges all the headlines. Markdown-mode itself will italicize starred text and boldface double-starred text, so this will get you there. However, it will not make the control characters invisible.

If you want that, you should probably look into pretty-lambda for examples (as Bozhidar Batsov suggested)