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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by maximus-decimus on Friday October 28, 2022 @12:19PM (#33373507)
> I've never met anyone that chose to make things more difficult for themselves by using a clunky WYSIWYG instead of just typing the markdown in a text editor.

That's basically what Obsidian does. If you right click on the editor pane, you can select "edit mode" which makes it act move like VSCode (pure text with bolding/italics), but the default move is WYSIWYG

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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by Falkon1313 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:19AM (#33392000)
Ah, I see that now, Source Mode vs Live Preview. But either way you're not using a toolbar and mouse for basic formatting and it's not hiding invisible control codes from you as you edit like in a standard WYSIWYG editor. The sort of things that make Word documents so hard to edit.

Even in Live Preview mode, every character is visible when the cursor is in the area.

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