# Settings: Advanced

Options in the Marked Settings, Advanced pane:

Settings: Advanced

YAML and Pandoc Metadata
  - Ignore: Leaves it exactly as it exists in the document, useful if your processor or preprocessor actually uses the YAML.
  - Remove before rendering: The YAML block is stripped
  - Treat as MMD metadata: Converts the YAML or Pandoc metadata block to the MultiMarkdown format.

Strip MMD3 Metadata headers
  If this is enabled, MultiMarkdown metadata at the top of the document will be removed before rendering.
  This can be useful if you’re using a non-MultiMarkdown processor that would otherwise display the metadata in the rendered document. The metadata is still read prior to removal, so Marked-specific syntax will still be recognized.

Cache hosted images
  Marked does not cache images in the preview by default, because it watches those images for changes and updates them instantly. If you’re using images that are referenced via a web URL, you can turn on caching of those images to speed up rendering on slower connections.

Analyze readability statistics
  If you prefer not to have statistics calculated, this will disable that processing. This can provide some performance enhancements on very large documents. Character, word, and sentence counts will continue to function.

Use system-wide Find pasteboard
  This option will allow Marked to pick up whatever search term you most recently used in another editor, and anything searched in Marked will become the search in other applications as well. Disabling it makes Marked’s search function independently.

Use `⌘`+`E` for Find With Selection
  By default, `⌘`+`E` opens the default editor. If this option is enabled, then `⌘`+`E` will function as it does in most text editing applications, using the selected text for Find, and Open in Editor can be triggered with `⌥`+`⌘`+`E`.

Debug mode
  Enables debug logging. Use this for your own troubleshooting, and when reporting an issue. Select Help->Open Debug Log to view activity.
  Setting to All will show info messages, warnings, and error messages. You can also set it to show only errors, or errors and warnings.

Import/Export Settings
  You can back up your Settings to a JSON file that can be used to restore settings or port them to a new machine.

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