What Slack really should do is have a WYSIWYG editor that keeps the markdown syntax. Just apply rich text formatting to the markdown syntax, but otherwise leave

What Slack really should do is have a WYSIWYG editor that keeps the markdown syntax. Just apply rich text formatting to the markdown syntax, but otherwise leave the text alone. This will provide a nice reminder about what the syntax does (I always forget that Slack treats asterisks differently than markdown) but let me edit using all of the muscle memory that I've built over the years.