include github-markup?

[eusebe]

Hello,

It would be great if jekyll could include github-markup, to support more markups thant textile and markdown.

[pdurbin]

If by "github-markup" you mean GitHub Flavored Markdown, yes I agree this would be a great feature. I'm using rdiscount for autolinking. . .

markdown: rdiscount
rdiscount:
  extensions: [autolink]

. . . but I would love to have Github Flavored Markdown's newline behavior.

[cboettig]

Agreed. Is there any plan to allow Jekyll to natively support the github flavored markdown syntax? It seems crazy that a markdown file that is compatible everywhere else on github is incompatible on gh-pages. I use this plugin to get redcarpet2 as my markdown parser, but is frustrating that this means I must build my site locally.

[parkr]

+1, this would be awesome.

[maul-esel]

+1

[rsertelon]

Oh, and +1 ;-)

[tombell]

I'm going to look into getting this working within the core of Jekyll.

[cboettig]

@tombell, Awesome. This might already be an outstanding pull request? #487
The real trick may be getting the attention/approval of the powers at be, which you may be able to do?

[parkr]

@cboettig I've been in contact with @mojombo and he tells me he's currently working on installing a few moderators of Jekyll.

[tombell]

@cboettig ah nice, I didn't see that pull request. I'll check it out and test it to see if it's good.

[cboettig]

@tombell Perhaps this pull request is a better choice?

[tombell]

Ah cool, thanks for pointing that one out, it does things similar to the one I created. I'll probably use some things that PR does.