> 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 exac

> 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.