Ability to disable markdown-insert-gfm-code-block prompt

[mcandre]

I appreciate the option to specify a language name for gfm triple backticks pre-formatted code blocks, but 99% of the time, I always want to skip it.

Could we introduce a configurable variable for whether the prompt is raised, or nil, or some preferred default language name is used?

[jrblevin]

This sounds good to me. I envision a minibuffer prompt with completion based on previously used language keywords in the current buffer (using read-from-minibuffer with the hist and default-value arguments). A global fallback default (for the first code block in a buffer) could be defined in a custom variable. There are other things I need to work on first, so if anyone else wants to write a patch in the meantime that would speed things up.

As a workaround for now you could re-bind </kbd> to self-insert-commandin thegfm-mode-hook` (just added today).

[cosmicexplorer]

I would think it'd be more appropriate to have a list of all the recognized languages gfm provides (which we'd have to update every so often) and do a completing-read (with history and default-value, and global default like you said) from that list instead of just read-from-minibuffer. Does that sound good? I'll take a look at this one.

[jrblevin]

Having a pre-specified list of languages is a great idea. I agree that completion would be preferred. I actually thought read-from-minibuffer did that, but I given the names I suppose it only provides history, not history and completion. If you could take a look at this, that would be great!

[jrblevin]

We now have completion for programming language names as described above with some additional enhancements. Also see the new variable markdown-gfm-use-electric-backquote, which determines whether to use markdown-electric-backquote when backquote is pressed three times (default: t). Thanks to @cosmicexplorer for implementing this!