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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by jrowley on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:30PM (#21635436)
It’s a really convenient property if you’re maintaining long lists since you can easily re-order items in a list without having to re-number each item.
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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by saalweachter on Monday November 25, 2019 @10:41PM (#21635492)
Yeah, it's great for wikis. Less so for forums.
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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by gibspaulding on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:34AM (#21639124)
It seems like for those situations it would be much nicer to just have something like \item in LaTeX. It's still readable in plaintext, but wouldn't break things.
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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:13PM (#21641568)
That's a perfectly reasonable use case that should be supported. But it should require explicit activation (a tag, etc). A formatting engine should not rewrite content unless told to explicitly.
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