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Ugh. No. This really breaks up the flow of the text. I’m sure it’s fine for org-mode’s intended audience, but for people not from a coding background, it’s hor
by Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
Ugh. No. This really breaks up the flow of the text.
I’m sure it’s fine for org-mode’s intended audience, but for people not from a coding background, it’s horrid. And there’s no need to “teach WYSIWYG users Markdown” when WYSIWYG is fine for them.
- ulrikrasmussen 7y agoIt could remove the Markdown once the message has been sent, and only show it in editing mode. Then readers wouldn't have their flow disturbed, and authors could edit their messages in a sane way.
- kqr 7y agoThis is the obvious way to do it, and also how Slack used to do it before this WYSIWYG thing at least.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNo, it doesn't. It's just syntax highlighting for markup. Disappearing formatting characters, which is what I switched Org to myself, is another story - it has some of the problems introduced by WYSIWYG.
- filleduchaos 7y agoIn my experience it doesn't particularly break up the flow of text. And as for "people not from a coding background", inline styling with visible formatting characters is exactly how Whatsapp implements its rich text editing. Considering it's an app with a billion and a half MAU, I think you might find that you have an unrealistically low opinion of non-developers' intelligence.