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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by briandear on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @01:18AM (#43181204)
You know what has live view all the time? RTF. What’s wrong with WYSIWYG?
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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by orwin on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @06:17AM (#43182678)
Hard to parse when read as text. Heavier. Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal.

As someone who live in terminal emulators (yes, even home), markdown is more WYSIWYG than most other formats (I still think org-mode is better though)

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by lou1306 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @10:03AM (#43184274)
> Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal.

Well, for reading you can always use pandoc with stdout output and pipe it to a pager. There are also fancier options like https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/pandoc-terminal-writer (disclaimer: I contributed a small PR a long time ago)

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Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown by genewitch on Thursday February 27, 2025 @03:45AM (#43192485)
nothing wrong with it. I wasn't evangelizing, just noting that at least some developers also want dual-pane markdown editing.
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