Render Markdown in Emacs buffer

Question

Is it possible to present Markdown rendered in an Emacs buffer using Emacs\' own buffer text formatting capabilities? Emacs in graphical environments has rich text presentation

Answer 1

Apart from pretty-lambda (which has already been suggested multiple times), you could look into org-mode and its syntax highliting rules. In particular, the org-hide-emphasis-markers variable does more or less what you want (see e.g. how org-do-emphasis-faces hide markup characters).