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> Or does someone claim that the following is unreadable gibberish that they need a parser for? Unreadable? No. Frustrating to type out? Yes. Underline style i
by lmm 2y ago
> Or does someone claim that the following is unreadable gibberish that they need a parser for?
Unreadable? No. Frustrating to type out? Yes. Underline style is annoying when editing, and even if you technically don't have to match the length you will still feel obliged do. Double backtick is just awful to write, annoying out of all proportion to how much extra time it actually takes.
- necovek 2y agoI guess you must really hate the double * for bold in either.
- lmm 2y agoI do yes. I swear at some point there was markdown or some variant that allowed one single-character thing for italics and another for bold (maybe * for bold and / for italic? And _ for underline?). These days I've mostly just given up using bold.
- necovek 2y agoYou are right, there was a convention using that as well: I still have it in my muscle memory too (I always expect bold with a single asterisk). But I can't remember when and what that was. I still wouldn't go as far to say the MD or RST syntax is hard in any way (and really, asterisk which requires a Shift key is worse than double backticks).