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by dunham 3600 days ago
My favorite model for editing markdown is the one that usecanvas.com and FoldingText (an OSX app) use.

They present the document as WYSIWYG with markdown hidden, but unhide any markdown surrounding or directly adjacent to the cursor. (So the markup from an italic or link span are only visible if you are adjacent to or within the span.)

It's a nice balance between looking pretty and letting me edit markdown directly. I'd love to have an open source editor library that acts like this.