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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
by 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 agoA 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 agoYes 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.