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I think tho that Markdown hasnt won the plain text battle - plain text has. Only a very small percentage of plain text docs are markdown...so small it wouldn't
by adamhyde 12y ago
I think tho that Markdown hasnt won the plain text battle - plain text has. Only a very small percentage of plain text docs are markdown...so small it wouldn't even count...
- ahoge 12y agoReddit, Stack Overflow, GitHub/BitBucket (readmes, tickets, wikis), and it's also used by a couple of CMSs, blog platforms, and static website generators. Virtually all of the text I write is Markdown. Even this very comment is written in a subset of Markdown (and so is yours).
- adamhyde 12y agoYes and notice how few have used it even here. Most replies are plain text.
- ahoge 12y agoParagraphs and emphasis are frequently used here.
- adamhyde 12y agoparagraphs are plain text :)
- ahoge 12y agoNo, they are not. It's not directly spit into an element with white-space: pre-line or white-space: pre. It's converted into paragraphs. Just like stuff inside asterisks is converted into emphasis.
- adamhyde 12y agosigh. plain text paragraphs cant be claimed to be invented by markdown. sorry. good try tho.
- ahoge 12y agoInvented? You are missing the point. The comments are written in a markup language (Markdown, UBB, whatever...) which is then converted to HTML. It's transformed and not displayed as-is.
- adamhyde 12y agoThats like saying BP invented oil. To claim a plaintext only comment, sans markdown syntax, as markdown is a big stretch to make. But I understand you will want to make that stretch inorder to justify the magic utility of the format. Thats a big whatever from me. Anyway. Im not going to argue this further. Agreed to disagree.