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**sj2mi** · March 19, 2017, 2:58pm

In Markdown mode, ST auto expands * to ** at the beginning of a line. How do you disable this behavior?

**math2001** · March 20, 2017, 6:34am

You mean when the current syntax is Markdown.

This behavior is caused by a package. Maybe Markdown Editing, or Markdown Extended.

I don’t use theses packages for completing markdown (I made my own called fast-markdown), but you might want to have a look at the readme if there is a some setting(s) to disable the keybinding.

pro-tip: use ReadmePlease to open the readme!

**kingkeith** · March 21, 2017, 12:16pm

copy the keybinding from MarkdownEditing into your User keybindings, and replace the expansion back to a single *

github.com

SublimeText-Markdown/MarkdownEditing/blob/5fdeaba3f1ae05f7baf1526b5dd5b6cf66cb0820/Default (Windows).sublime-keymap#L3-L13


{ "keys": ["*"], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"contents": "*$0*"}, "context":
 [
     { "key": "setting.auto_match_enabled", "operator": "equal", "operand": true },
     { "key": "selection_empty", "operator": "equal", "operand": true, "match_all": true },
     { "key": "following_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "^(?:\t| |\\)|]|\\}|$)", "match_all": true },
     { "key": "preceding_text", "operator": "not_regex_contains", "operand": "['a-zA-Z0-9_*]$", "match_all": true },
     { "key": "eol_selector", "operator": "not_equal", "operand": "string.quoted.single", "match_all": true },
     { "key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "text.html.markdown", "match_all": true },
     { "key": "selector", "operator": "not_equal", "operand": "markup.raw", "match_all": true }
 ]
},

**Chipotle** · March 21, 2017, 10:32pm

Just as a note, if you type a space after the first *, MarkdownEditing will add the space and erase the second * character. So if you’re typing a bulleted list, for example, you can just type it out normally and the right thing will happen.

**sj2mi** · March 22, 2017, 3:14pm

Thanks. Is there a generic way to find the file that contains the keybindings for each package?

**math2001** · March 23, 2017, 7:07am

You’re gonna PackageResourceViewer.

Look for

Default.sublime-keymap
Default (Windows).sublime-keymap
Default (Linux).sublime-keymap
Default (OSX).sublime-keymap

Markdown editing, auto-text