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		danbmil99 on Nov 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible Once it formats your text, you are forced to use the formatting menu to change anything. They are clearly moving towards WYSWYG-only, markup is minimally supported now to facilitate transition. Sad.

ilikepi on Nov 21, 2019 [–]

You can also toggle formatting with keyboard shortcuts.

I wonder, if they introduced a keyboard shortcut that cleared all formatting, would that be a reasonable compromise?

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