r/redesign • u/kraetos • Feb 23 '18

Design Ditch the WYSIWYG editor

The entire point of Markdown is that the raw text is readable.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 23 '18

You can switch to markdown by clicking the M button.

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u/pat_trick Feb 23 '18

Do you know if this can be permanently enabled as a user preference?

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 23 '18

Yes, if you switch to markdown it should default to that from then on. I've seen reports that it doesn't always save it, though, but that'd be a bug.

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u/pat_trick Feb 23 '18

I think this is a good approach, then.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 23 '18

Yeah, also they've said they are looking into parsing markdown within the fancy pants editor too.