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> I can't be the only one who believes this...writing in a 2 panel markdown+preview side-by-side view is just horrible and backwards. It's called markup and a
by slightwinder 6y ago
> I can't be the only one who believes this...writing in a 2 panel markdown+preview side-by-side view is just horrible and backwards.
It's called markup and a matter of efficiency. With richtext I need to mark the Text and click some button/menu-item OR learn a gazillion shortcuts for every little syntax-function. With Markup I use the same keys that I use for writting text, because the syntax is internal to the text, not some hidden external thing.
Of course it's possible to make a hybrid, something that displays richtext instantly while still working with syntax. But this is hard and cumbersome. Nonthless, Obsidian has it on their list as a longterm-goal, so maybe in some years we will see it.
- bonaldi 6y ago> With richtext I need to mark the Text and click some button/menu-item OR learn a gazillion shortcuts for every little syntax-function. Cmd-B for bold is exactly the same number of keystrokes as shift-8, and is exactly the same amount of cognitive load to learn. (You can also apply styling both on selected text and for text about to be typed, unlike plain text environments like this textfield I'm using now where you can't do shift-8 on selected text.) When you get into the more esoteric syntax, it's still a tie: look how often even Gruber gets the Markdown link syntax wrong, and he designed it.