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A Markdown File Should Just Open (joshuamorris.info)
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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You shouldn't need extra software. PDFs just work.

What? PDFs absolutely don't just work without "extra software", you need a browser or acrobat or some other pdf reader.

I guess it's a call for a OS-bundled markdown renderer but then you have to open different software depending on what you want to do with it which I'd hate personally. Not to mention the 10s of standards for markdown and no way to know which one the file used/intended.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    Thing is, if you double click a pdf to open it you’ll see it the way it should look, whereas in the case of markdown files you often get the raw characters. So on most stock systems this point is absolutely valid.

    I guess it's a call for a OS-bundled markdown renderer but then you have to open different software depending on what you want to do with it which I'd hate personally

    An editor with a function row to apply text styling, bullet points, … solves this problem. Basically the way the default Notes app on iOS (and I’d guess Android as well) already works, but saving as md instead.

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