[teknopaul]

"the ability to format and fit content in your editor, loosely independent of how it would be presented to the user"

?? Markdown is the opposite, no? Ability to format text in an editor that looks sufficiently like formatted final text so you don't need to render it all the time.

That's what I like about markdown anyway.

[paradox460]

I was more referring to the behavior some markdown parsers have, which is that they (deliberately) make line-breaks significant.

Try writing something in your text editor of choice, and hard wrapping it at 80 columns. You then paste it into a github issue, and you'll see that the line breaks are preserved. It gets pretty annoying, even if all you have to do is join all the lines in the paragraph/section.

I'm not advocating for a total decoupling of presentation from raw code, but I do think that significant newlines are a point of particular irritation.