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There are also the multitude of people that use markdown in chat applications, which usually implement a form of WYSIWYG editing, e.g., Slack.

by ketzu 4y ago

kevincox 4y ago
Does slack even use markdown? It seems to me that it just uses some markdown-like sybtax as a shortcut for generating its rich text. Like Google Docs will start a list after -<Space>.
- MereInterest 4y ago
  There's an option to post in markdown instead of WYSIWYG. The one and only reason I use Slack's WYSIWYG instead of markdown is because their markdown parser doesn't handle links. If they just fixed that, I could stop using their WYSIWYG and its atrocious handling of inline code blocks.
  - chrismorgan 4y ago
    Because it’s still not Markdown, not by a long shot. https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting#basics https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting#basics may call it “mrkdwn”, but it bears only a very superficial resemblance to Markdown—in significant chunks it’s closer to one or two other lightweight markup languages than to Markdown.
  - Fishkins 4y ago
    Have you tried recently? There was a period when I also had WYSIWYG enabled solely because markdown links weren't working for me, but that's been fixed (at least for me) for a while now.
- ycombobreaker 4y ago
  Ehhh there's "Markdown" and there's "markdown". Slack definitely has markdown, and any argument to the contrary is a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. I personally use hyperlink text, bullet lists, tt/bold/italics, quote blocks, pre blocks.
  - michaelt 4y ago
    A few years ago, Slack was "plain text entry box for markdown" In ~2019, it changed to "WYSIWYG with markdown converted to WYSIWYG as you type". If you type "Hello *world*" the * will disappear and the "world" will be bolded - and you can also get bold with Ctrl+B or pressing a 'bold' button or pasting bold rich text. There's an option to disable it [1], so if your slack experience is different you might have WYSIWYG disabled. And if you think markdown usually means *foo* producing italics, and **foo** for bold, all I can say is yes. [1] https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1201955273667158023?lang=en-GB https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1201955273667158023?lang=...
    - ycombobreaker 4y ago
      Yes I disabled the WYSIWYG editor the day it landed. The exact syntax of bold/italics is just a flavor... "markdown" as a design pattern vs. "Markdown" as a specific implementation or specification.

There are also the multitude of people that use markdown in chat applications, which usually implement a form of WYSIWYG editing, e.g., Slack.

by ketzu 4y ago

There are also the multitude of people that use markdown in chat applications, which usually implement a form of WYSIWYG editing, e.g., Slack.

kevincox 4y ago

Does slack even use markdown? It seems to me that it just uses some markdown-like sybtax as a shortcut for generating its rich text. Like Google Docs will start a list after -<Space>.

MereInterest 4y ago
There's an option to post in markdown instead of WYSIWYG. The one and only reason I use Slack's WYSIWYG instead of markdown is because their markdown parser doesn't handle links. If they just fixed that, I could stop using their WYSIWYG and its atrocious handling of inline code blocks.
- chrismorgan 4y ago
  Because it’s still not Markdown, not by a long shot. https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting#basics https://api.slack.com/reference/surfaces/formatting#basics may call it “mrkdwn”, but it bears only a very superficial resemblance to Markdown—in significant chunks it’s closer to one or two other lightweight markup languages than to Markdown.
- Fishkins 4y ago
  Have you tried recently? There was a period when I also had WYSIWYG enabled solely because markdown links weren't working for me, but that's been fixed (at least for me) for a while now.
ycombobreaker 4y ago
Ehhh there's "Markdown" and there's "markdown". Slack definitely has markdown, and any argument to the contrary is a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. I personally use hyperlink text, bullet lists, tt/bold/italics, quote blocks, pre blocks.
- michaelt 4y ago
  A few years ago, Slack was "plain text entry box for markdown" In ~2019, it changed to "WYSIWYG with markdown converted to WYSIWYG as you type". If you type "Hello *world*" the * will disappear and the "world" will be bolded - and you can also get bold with Ctrl+B or pressing a 'bold' button or pasting bold rich text. There's an option to disable it [1], so if your slack experience is different you might have WYSIWYG disabled. And if you think markdown usually means *foo* producing italics, and **foo** for bold, all I can say is yes. [1] https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1201955273667158023?lang=en-GB https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/1201955273667158023?lang=...
  - ycombobreaker 4y ago
    Yes I disabled the WYSIWYG editor the day it landed. The exact syntax of bold/italics is just a flavor... "markdown" as a design pattern vs. "Markdown" as a specific implementation or specification.