MarkDown

another SmartAscii format

sub-lists use 4 spaces for each level

Visual text-editor options to use instead of a vanilla browser text-area?

goals
- mode-less: or at least, editing a paragraph doesn't reload the whole page and make you go find the block....
  - some wikis have a model where every paragraph has an edit handle, and just that part of the page turns into a textarea......
  - auto-save: less necessary
  - render styles as you type (headers, bold): 3rd place
  - let people use the editor/IDE they're already familiar with - interesting different-frame....
in-browser
- SimpleMDE https://simplemde.com/ includes auto-save option
- StackEdit provides very handy formatting buttons and shortcuts, thanks to PageDown, the WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor used by Stack Overflow. Even works offline. Lets you pick Markdown-flavor (CommonMark). Mermaid diagrams. https://stackedit.io/
- PageDown https://github.com/StackExchange/pagedown - help
stand-alone app, supporting some open server API - will it feel more modeless?
- iA Writer supports micropub - anyone using it?
- Ulysses supports Markdown and micro.blog (micropub?)

Stand-alone text editor apps (just file i/o, no API)

Bill Seitz