Disable marking of violation when in Zen Mode

[CGMossa]

Great extension and very much appreciated. It would be great, if the markings in editor would be disabled once the editor is in Zen Mode. Or atleast an option to enable/disable markdownlint in zenmode would be very much appreciated.

[DavidAnson]

It’ll depend on whether VS Code gives extensions a way to detect Zen Mode. I don’t see anything at https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/vscode-api, but I’ll check again when I’m not on my phone.

[CGMossa]

Thanks. At this point, I just want to be able to disable it, as it is extremely distracting, but I don't want to disable it via the Extension menu, as then I may never remember to turn in it on again.

[wdscxsj]

@DavidAnson Is it possible to add a command to toggle it manually? In a quick read of other people's markdown files, one often has no need to do the fixes, and the markings often feel distracting.

[DavidAnson]

Yes, that seems straightforward. I expect the command would be a toggle for on/off and would take effect on the current file only and would not be saved. (For anything more permanent, the existing support for “ignore” should be used.)

[wdscxsj]

Or allow the user to choose whether or not it's a permanent choice? Suppose one has to skim over dozens of markdown files at the same time, and drags them into VSCode, he surely hates to turn it off one by one, or to configure some ignore rules using a project just for immediate viewing.

[DavidAnson]

Makes sense, yes. I could make it apply to the entire session. I just do not want it to persist because I worry people will forget they have change this and will be unable to figure out why the extension “isn’t working“. As long as they can close and reopen Code and things work again, that seems good.

[wdscxsj]

Thanks! I think that'll be very practical.

[DavidAnson]

@wdscxsj: The markdownlint.toggleLinting command is available in the 0.35.* release to temporarily turn linting on/off. It can be run directly and/or bound to a keyboard shortcut.

@CGMossa: I looked into detecting Zen mode again and still don't see a way, so I'm leaving this issue open.

[wdscxsj]

@DavidAnson Confirmed. Thank you very much!

[DavidAnson]

Link to open issue in VS Code: microsoft/vscode#114741