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by sigwinch 384 days ago
It’s a fine interchange format and I prefer it from my ripgrep preprocessor as opposed to text.
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can you explain more what you mean by that? I'm curious what the use case is.
To diff or even just page through a bag of arbitrary documents, there are a bunch of content extractors which helpfully target clean Markdown.

For anything more elaborate, my main competitor to Markdown is the Pandoc internal representation.