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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by larntz on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:04AM (#21637883)
I use this "feature". But generally I use the same number for all items because it is a pain to have to renumber everything.

maybe the solution is to renumber if a list uses all 1's, but leave it untouched if it has different out of order numbers.

So this gets renumbered:

1. item 1

1. item 2

1. item 3

But this does not:

1.

3.

7.

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Re:GitHub satanically messing with Markdown – changes 666 to... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:47AM (#21638194)
Shouldn't things like numbering be part of the UA, then the user can decide (directly or give the job to a plugin).

Reddit could then offer "use our text-editor assistant in your browser" to those who aren't using one.

The text box would have to define what it allowed as input: alnum, plaintext, markdown, etc., and the appropriate plugin would activate?

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