It's not that the WYSIWYG editors aren't easy to use in most senses–they're not difficult at all. However, many people that use Markdown are probably geeky enou

It's not that the WYSIWYG editors aren't easy to use in most senses–they're not difficult at all. However, many people that use Markdown are probably geeky enough to not need some WYSIWYG editor in the first place. For me, I'm in the terminal and MacVim for a good portion of my day hacking around; so, while I enjoy portions of the Google Docs(or whatever editor) interface, if I stop my usual coding activities to write a blog post, I'd like to stay in my natural environment of vim and terminal. This is particularly true if my blog post contains code–it feels much more natural for me to paste code samples between vim windows than it does to copy code from vim and paste it into some external editor. (So, basically, it's not just the syntax, it's also the environment in which I get to write that syntax.)