Non-Markdown files should not use markdown rendering

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  • Lettera Version: 1.0.0 (3980)
  • macOS Version: 26.5.1 (25F80)
  • What were you doing: Opening a folder containing various file formats
  • What feature did you use: None. just opening listed files, whether they are Markdown files or not
  • What happened: Most non-Markdown files were opened as plain text; but some were falsely rendered as if they were Markdown. i.e. I opened a bash script with a .sh extension; the inline comments prefixed with # were rendered as H1 headings :person_facepalming:
  • What did you expect to happen: Non-Markdown files, especially if their extension is not .md or .markdown should not be rendered as Markdown.

I’d personally prefer all files that are not Markdown files are rendered read-only with syntax highlighting enabled, the very same one used for code-blocks.

For context; I open my development/code project folders in Lettera. Those projects contain scripts and various other files beside the main focus of markdown files.

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Ideally, there should be an option, perhaps in the Format menu, to not interpret Markdown. It’s not uncommon to save markdown files as .txt, because some apps can’t open .md, so perhaps the settings need a list of file types to be interpreted.