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by wakawaka28 505 days ago
Are you kidding? There are lots of WYSIWYGs of various kinds out there and some of them are decent. You can get them for Markdown, HTML, RTF, and many other formats. But the real common denominator between most apps is text. You could try HTML, but that is much more code-like than Markdown. It would be wildly unreasonable to make text into a binary-only thing that you can only paste into apps that support the particular encoding that you're using.