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I keep seeing references to markdown editors on HN. As a non-tech person it would have never crossed my mind to use something like this to write a novel or even
by Bakary 6y ago
I keep seeing references to markdown editors on HN. As a non-tech person it would have never crossed my mind to use something like this to write a novel or even keep notes, but it seems to really strike a chord here. Perhaps it's simply the comfort associated with code over a long period of time?
- therealdrag0 6y agoPart of it might be preference for plain text files with no vendor lock-in. Or it might be preference for explicitness, we've all fought with rich editors bleeding format from one word into another and struggling to un-format the text at the right location.
- michaericalribo 6y agoTo play devil's advocate, ODF is (a) open, and (b) native in Word. For that matter, docx is an ISO standard. On the other side, I perpetually have to unformat my hard-wrapped lines, before I paste plain text into eg an email...