I am comparing basic rich text editing (eg the Mac of the 1980s) with the plain text areas and email composers that Markdown was designed for. In rich text int

I am comparing basic rich text editing (eg the Mac of the 1980s) with the plain text areas and email composers that Markdown was designed for. In rich text interfaces, keyboard shortcuts do more and work better than they do when typing Markdown in pure plain text environments. That you can build better keyboard shortcuts for plain text areas is of course true, but it’s still a hack on top of a hack.