Option to automatically open markdown in preview

[abdhx]

Add a setting markdown.defaultView to automatically open .md files in preview mode instead of editing mode.
This is so useful, because the most of time, I just want to read the .md files.

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• When in preview mode of a Markdown file, keep preview mode when browsing to a link (local at least) (#20819)
• Opening new files open in Preview pane (#54675)
• Automatically Activate Markdown Preview (#2766)
• Markdown Open preview action is not multi-select aware (#42583)

[jcgerhard]

This would be a perfect solution! I am using vscode for nearly everything day in day out. And I built a private wiki/knowledgebase based on markdown files. An option like markdown.defaultView would be a perfect solution! Most of the times I want to read-only my documents in fullsize view without the need to see the source code! As a reference you can check typora.io and/or notable app where this feature is amazingly implemented.

[evanharmon1]

I definitely agree. This seems like a clear win to have an option for this.

[JudyLipinski]

We use VSCode to teach Web Dev and Python and love to use markdown files for instructions. It would be incredibly helpful to have an option like markdown.defaultView to help those who are a bit less technical be distracted by the edit mode.

[jcgerhard]

Any news on this? Seems like this request is completely ignored. I am very afflicted because this simple tiny feature would make all other note-taking tools obsolete! Hey Devs...pull yourself together...pleeeaaase...and add this feature! I think it wouldn‘t be very hard to implement.

[mjbvz]

Locking as none of the comments are anything but fancy +1s

If you are actually interested in working on this feature and have ideas on how to implement it, please let me know (just open a separate issue and reference this one)

[mjbvz]

I have checked in prototype that allows you to set the markdown preview as the default editor: #84520 We are looking for the community to drive the testing and polishing of this feature so that it can ship, so please follow up on #84520 if you wish to contribute

[mjbvz]

This has actually be possible for a while. To change this, you can configure the default editor for .md files (or whatever other markdown file extension you wish). Here's an example setting:

"workbench.editorAssociations": {
	"*.md": "vscode.markdown.preview.editor"
}

Use the reopen with command to switch back to the standard text editor