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Editors are for, gasp, writing or editing source code like Markdown. Some people write source code and aren't just users... That's what documentation generato
by dismalaf 1y ago
Editors are for, gasp, writing or editing source code like Markdown. Some people write source code and aren't just users...
That's what documentation generators are for, to render all the docs and search them if you're just a user.
- DidYaWipe 1y agoAnd read-me files are for, <gasp>, READING. Not writing. I have no need to EDIT any Markdown files... pretty much ever. Nor do I need to clutter my IDE with tabs devoted to reference material, much less an extra pane to "preview" it in its intended rendering. Your pretension that most programming involves writing Markdown "source code" is absurd. I neither want nor need Markdown in any of my source-code editors, ever. Not once in decades of professional programming have I missed it. And if I do need to create Markdown, I will want to do so in a simple WYSIWIG editor and save it as MD. Again... not in my IDE.
- dismalaf 1y agoSomeone writes the README... And WYSIWYG? Who uses those? And how often are you even reading READMEs? For me it's usually once, when I first use a library, because it typically gives an outline of the project and/or instructions on how to install it. So I'm reading it in a browser. Meanwhile I'm updating my own READMEs often, usually using them as a sort of to-do list and then outlining existing functionality. Like, are you really using so many libraries as glue that reading READMEs is such a common task that you specifically want it in your IDE? Is that the current state of programming?
- DidYaWipe 1y ago"reading READMEs is such a common task that you specifically want it in your IDE" Are you being intentionally obtuse? I said that's exactly what I DON'T want.