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<p>Long story short version. Took your advice and tried calling geany from command line without plugins.<br>
Lesson learned: the filetype .md is recognised as part of the core functionality - no plugins needed.<br>
Uninstalled all plugins and uninstalled geany. then installed both from mint software source. - no change in behaviour.<br>
Established file location for plugin libraries on my system and noted that markdown was not installed.<br>
The web page for markdown suggests contacting the geany team which is why I made this original call.<br>
However it also give the author's email address (Matthew Brush at geany.com) so I will follow up with him.<br>
It is slightly misleading having the web page up but no libraries installed.<br>
As an aside I have found a python library that converts markdown to html so I can(hopefully) write a script to invoke this when the execute command is called</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>

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