On 10/25/06, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
On 25. Oct 2006, at 15:56, Fred B wrote:
I think it's a great idea to include Markdown, the only problem I have with this is the need of two spaces for hard linebreak. It's not a problem for what I write, as I'm used to Markdown, but the quotes are messed when previewing...
IMO this is a flaw of Markdown and should be changed.
I have raised the issue a few times, but the Markdown "community" seems more obsessed with things like how to treat two dashes inside XML comments, than fixing the multitude of problems and inconsistencies with block level environments and embedding of same ;)
Yes, I follow the Markdown mail list and see what you're talking about... ;) Markdown is the best text markup I know of, but when you use it all the time, inconsistencies with blocks, lists, etc. show up quite often. They should be easy to fix if only they settled on a way to fix it and do it.
Two other things I dislike about using Markdown for email is that bold (⌘B) wraps the text in two asterisks (and visually *bla* is italic), and that URLs are not underlined (and thus not "clickable") unless written like this: http://macromates.com/.
Totally agree.
The latter though scope injection will be able to easily solve (solving it now would require to override a large portion of the Markdown grammar, because URLs are matched inside block level elements including paragraphs).
I think you should fork Markdown and make TextDown. And don't tell me you don't have the time. Ok, I'm out. :D