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I personally think the point of markdown is that any text editor becomes distraction-free. Everything to do with structuring content is inline with the text. Ho
by alphachloride 6y ago
I personally think the point of markdown is that any text editor becomes distraction-free. Everything to do with structuring content is inline with the text. How that structure is displayed is deferred to the rendering context.
I like the feature set, by the way.
- c-smile 6y agoWell, Markdown is a form of WYSIWYG strictly speaking. Poor man WYSIWYG if you wish. This * list item 1 * list item 2 mimics final representation of bullet list and so do pretty much all other syntax constructs of Markdown. The only benefit it gives for the user (if to compare with typical WYSIWYG) is a simplification of caret positioning. Consider these MD construct: _italics_**bold** In MD you can easily put something in between these two words or modify words themselves. But in case of "tru-WYSIWYG" you will have this situation: <i>italics</i><b>bold</b> with just one caret position between italics and bold. In fact there are three possible caret positions (on edges of words and between) but no WYSIWYG editor allows you to do that.