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Problem

The Markdown preview always renders the document, so there is no way to inspect the original Markdown from the preview window without switching to another viewer. Issue #2030 asks for a toggle between the rendered page and the raw source.

Changes

• Added a small icon button at the top-right of the preview and a Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut to switch between rendered Markdown and a plain <pre> source view.
• The raw view uses textContent, so markup is shown as text instead of being interpreted. The source is populated on first use to keep initial load light.
• The Markdown text is now transported as base64 and decoded in the page. This keeps the source view exact: character references, CRLF line endings, and literal </textarea> text are no longer altered or truncated by HTML parsing. It also removes the previous textarea breakout path.
• Each view keeps its own scroll position, so switching from a taller rendered page to a shorter source view and back restores the rendered position instead of the clamped source position.
• The button uses the existing GitHub Markdown light/dark theme variables and moves to the left in RTL layout. Existing rendering, TOC, Mermaid rendering, and link handling are otherwise untouched. No new dependencies; changes are limited to MarkdownPanel.cs and Resources/md2html.html.

Verification

• dotnet build QuickLook.Plugin\QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer\QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer.csproj -c Release -p:Platform=AnyCPU succeeds with 0 errors (two pre-existing missing ruleset warnings). .NET SDK 10.0.404 was used because current master relies on C# 14 extension blocks.
• Headless Edge test on a page produced from a sample .md with YAML front matter, raw HTML, a code block, and 100+ headings: 44/44 checks passed. Covered exact raw source text, lazy loading, rendered/raw visibility, scroll preservation both ways, separate scroll positions when one view is shorter, dark theme colors, button state, click toggle, shortcut toggle, and unchanged preview/TOC DOM after a round trip.
• A second page with HTML entities, CRLF line endings, and a literal </textarea> confirms the source view preserves the exact input and the page is not truncated.
• The same test against the unmodified md2html.html fails (3/7 checks; no toggle button), confirming it exercises the new behavior.

Not verified

• No interactive GUI test inside the QuickLook preview window was performed; verification used the embedded page in headless Edge/Chromium (the WebView2 engine).
• For .mmd Mermaid files the shared template's raw view shows the content passed to the Markdown renderer (including the Mermaid fence added by the panel), not the exact original file bytes.

Fixes #2030

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Walkthrough

The Markdown preview now embeds Markdown as Base64-encoded UTF-8 content. A button and Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut switch between rendered Markdown and raw source.

Changes: Markdown source view

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Source content and controls QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/MarkdownPanel.cs, QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/Resources/md2html.html	The panel Base64-encodes the UTF-8 Markdown content. The template decodes it and adds a source-view button and raw-source display, with styles that support RTL layouts.
View switching behavior QuickLook.Plugin/QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/Resources/md2html.html	The button and Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut switch views. The toggle populates the source on first use, updates accessibility attributes, saves separate scroll positions, and exposes window.toggleSourceView.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: copilot, emako

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to f6097

The Markdown preview gains a rendered/raw source toggle with a Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut. Earlier concerns about altered source text and lost scroll position have been addressed, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "Add rendered/raw source toggle to Markdown preview" matches the main change. The PR adds a button and Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut that switch the Markdown preview between rendered output and the …
Linked Issues check		Issue #2030 asks for a preview-window button that toggles between rendered Markdown and the raw plain-text source. At the reviewed head f60970f, Resources/md2html.html implements this. A fixed #raw-to…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR change set touches Resources/md2html.html and QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/MarkdownPanel.cs. The MarkdownPanel.cs diff (merge base to head) replaces the {{content}} substitution with {…
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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Explanation

The title "Add rendered/raw source toggle to Markdown preview" matches the main change. The PR adds a button and Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut that switch the Markdown preview between rendered output and the raw source. The raw summary also shows the template and MarkdownPanel.cs changes that support this toggle, so the title is fully related to the changeset.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2030 asks for a preview-window button that toggles between rendered Markdown and the raw plain-text source. At the reviewed head f60970f, Resources/md2html.html implements this. A fixed #raw-toggle button calls toggleSourceView(). That function flips body.source-mode, which hides .container and shows #raw-source (a <pre>). The source is now delivered as Base64 in <script id="text-input" type="text/plain">. MarkdownPanel.cs encodes the prepared content as UTF-8 and Base64, then substitutes {{contentBase64}}. The template decodes it with atob and TextDecoder, which removes a UTF-8 BOM, and assigns the result to rawSourceView.textContent on first use. This change keeps the source intact through HTML parsing. Scroll position is saved and restored per view. The button sets aria-pressed and aria-label. The PR reports a headless Edge test (32/32 checks), which supports the behavior. The Ctrl+Shift+M keydown listener lies in the part of md2html.html that the read tool truncated. It was not confirmed in source. The issue does not require the shortcut, so this does not affect the verdict. The .mmd raw-view limitation does not conflict with the issue. Non-coding verification steps are not assessed.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR change set touches Resources/md2html.html and QuickLook.Plugin.MarkdownViewer/MarkdownPanel.cs. The MarkdownPanel.cs diff (merge base to head) replaces the {{content}} substitution with {{contentBase64}}. It adds a comment that explains the reason: HTML parsing would alter or truncate the source. The change supports the raw-source feature, so it is not unrelated. The RTL and TOC shortcut substitutions are unchanged. The head template shows the toggle markup, CSS, Base64 payload, toggle logic, and window.toggleSourceView export. All of these serve the feature. The incremental diff for md2html.html could not be read, so the full-file read was used as evidence. No unrelated change was demonstrated. Not verified: whether any other template or panel depends on the removed {{content}} placeholder. This does not affect scope, because the diff shows the placeholder was replaced only in GenerateMarkdownHtml.

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- Line 400: Update the view-switching logic around `scrollTop` to retain a
separate saved scroll position for the rendered and source views. Save the
outgoing view’s position before switching, then restore the destination view’s
saved position without replacing it with the outgoing position after clamping.
- Line 287: Replace the `text-input` textarea transport with a lossless
representation that is safe from HTML character-reference decoding and embedded
closing-tag termination; decode the original Markdown before assigning it to
`rawContent` so the source view preserves the exact input.

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Both review findings were addressed in f60970f: the source text is now transported as base64 (preserving entities, CRLF, and literal </textarea> text), and each view keeps its own saved scroll position.