Re:Why Is Markdown Popular?
by ycombobreaker on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:09AM
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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 use hyperlink text, bullet lists, tt/bold/italics, quote blocks, pre blocks.
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A 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=...
Re:Why Is Markdown Popular?
by ycombobreaker on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:03PM
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Yes 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.