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Show HN: Collaborative text editing with unobtrusive markdown and code highlighting (bluedocs.io)
25 points by c0da 3756 days ago
5 comments
rspeer 3755 days ago
Add an easy way to link to other pages without having to type the full URL, and you've got a radical improvement on a wiki.

Perhaps you could use double-bracket links like GitHub wikis use, so this would be a [[ubpdk|link to another document]].

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reitanqild 3755 days ago
Why markdown everywhere, don't we have better markup languages?
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detaro 3755 days ago
Do we? Recently looked into that and it didn't seem like there is something clear-cut superior, sadly...
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reitanqild 3755 days ago
Asciidoc seems superior to me at least.

IIRC Dokuwiki wasn't too bad either.

Standard Markdown used to lack some important constructs, again IIRC.

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rspeer 3755 days ago
Really? What are they?

Markdown seems perfect for this case where the markup is the rendered content.

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malloryerik 3755 days ago
Very cool, but what's the issue with mobile? I use Swype and it only inputs the first letter of each word.
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fiatjaf 3756 days ago
What is the stack?
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c0da 3756 days ago
It's almost pure front-end using Firebase + Firepad (https://firepad.io/). The editor uses CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/) and custom highlighting rules. The backend (what little of it exists) is in Flask :)
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Old_Thrashbarg 3756 days ago
Very cool!
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