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[gumby]

Isn’t the point of markdown that it’s a bridge to ordinary text editors?

Programs like TextEdit and Word should have a “save as Markdown” option, but it isn’t that important.

[wiremine → gumby]

> Isn’t the point of markdown that it’s a bridge to ordinary text editors?

Yes, but visualizing the _rendered_ markdown is very helpful to debug the content.

[rcarmo → wiremine]

Yes, and RTF text editors allowed for just that. Which apparently is a lost art these days…