[kilolima]

Do you have use the mouse to use rich text? If so then no thanks.

[burmanm]

We've even had word processors for over 40 years, why would we suddenly need mouse support to write rich text?

Editing rich text without mouse has always been a thing, Markdown isn't something that suddenly created some fancy new rich text without mouse experience.

[beardedwizard]

It obviates the need because it is not rich text.

[emrah]

Yep i use the mouse and I'm very fast with it. I bet I'm faster with it than you are with your keyboard ;-)

[kilolima]

It's not the speed, it's saving the carpal tunnel for video games... :)

[burrish]

Well most rich-text have the common shortcuts tho, like ctrl + b to put text in bold.

[beardedwizard]

But the way that is represented in the file format isn't standard, which means it may not be interoperable.