This is a UITextView that is supposed to replicate the comment toolbar in iOctocat (http://ioctocat.com) with auto-insert markdown functionality.

Screenshot of Markdown Syntax

Installation

Podfile

platform :ios, '7.0'
pod "RFMarkdownTextView", "~> 1.4"

Use

RFMarkdownTextView is like any other UITextView - just set it up with initWithFrame: and you're good to go.

Hope you enjoy it!

Screenshots

Side by Side Comparison (with iOctocat)

Looking at these now, the text size seems smaller and the * and ` button titles don't seem to be centered. Feel free to open a pull request to fix either, as I won't be doing so.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Rudd Fawcett

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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