diff --git a/live_templates/live_templates.iml b/live_templates/live_templates.iml
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index 000000000..e025b203c
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+++ b/live_templates/live_templates.iml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module type="PLUGIN_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="DevKit.ModuleBuildProperties" url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml" />
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" inherit-compiler-output="true">
+    <exclude-output />
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src" isTestSource="false" />
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/resources" type="java-resource" />
+    </content>
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+  </component>
+</module>
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diff --git a/live_templates/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml b/live_templates/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..68ae2627b
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+++ b/live_templates/resources/META-INF/plugin.xml
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+<idea-plugin version="2">
+  <id>com.your.company.unique.plugin.id</id>
+  <name>Plugin display name here</name>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+  <vendor email="support@yourcompany.com" url="http://www.yourcompany.com">YourCompany</vendor>
+
+  <description><![CDATA[
+      Enter short description for your plugin here.<br>
+      <em>most HTML tags may be used</em>
+    ]]></description>
+
+  <change-notes><![CDATA[
+      Add change notes here.<br>
+      <em>most HTML tags may be used</em>
+    ]]>
+  </change-notes>
+
+  <!-- please see http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/getting_started/build_number_ranges.html for description -->
+  <idea-version since-build="141.0"/>
+
+  <!-- please see http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/getting_started/plugin_compatibility.html
+       on how to target different products -->
+  <!-- uncomment to enable plugin in all products
+  <depends>com.intellij.modules.lang</depends>
+  -->
+
+  <extensions defaultExtensionNs="com.intellij">
+    <!-- Add your extensions here -->
+  </extensions>
+
+  <actions>
+    <!-- Add your actions here -->
+  </actions>
+
+</idea-plugin>
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diff --git a/live_templates/resources/liveTemplates/Markdown.xml b/live_templates/resources/liveTemplates/Markdown.xml
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index 000000000..c7788d82b
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+++ b/live_templates/resources/liveTemplates/Markdown.xml
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+<templateSet group="Markdown">
+    <template name="[" value="[$TEXT$]($LINK$)$END$" description="New link reference." toReformat="false" toShortenFQNames="false">
+        <variable name="TEXT" expression="" defaultValue="" alwaysStopAt="true" />
+        <variable name="LINK" expression="complete()" defaultValue="" alwaysStopAt="true" />
+        <context>
+            <option name="MARKDOWN" value="true" />
+        </context>
+    </template>
+</templateSet>
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diff --git a/live_templates/src/MarkdownContext.java b/live_templates/src/MarkdownContext.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4daf4df1a
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+++ b/live_templates/src/MarkdownContext.java
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+import com.intellij.codeInsight.template.TemplateContextType;
+
+/**
+ * Created by breandan on 1/11/2016.
+ */
+public class MarkdownContext extends TemplateContextType {
+}
diff --git a/live_templates/src/MarkdownTemplateProvider.java b/live_templates/src/MarkdownTemplateProvider.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8926db4b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/live_templates/src/MarkdownTemplateProvider.java
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+import com.intellij.codeInsight.template.impl.DefaultLiveTemplatesProvider;
+
+/**
+ * Created by breandan on 1/11/2016.
+ */
+public class MarkdownTemplateProvider implements DefaultLiveTemplatesProvider {
+}