[antihero]

Something I've been looking for for a while: A Markdown WYSIWYG. I personally dislike WYSIWYG, but for clients, it cannot be beaten. Now, most things that clients do in CMSs can be done with Markdown, and it avoids complications with weird HTML output, them trying to do unconventional styling (aka "ruining the website). So something like CKEditor or TinyMCE but outputting Markdown, and constrained to Markdown's limitations.

Does such a thing exist?

[bergie]

You may want to try this one: http://hallojs.org/demo/markdown/

You can edit in both the rich text editor and in the textarea, and changes will get synced across.

That was just a quick demo. There are things that could be improved, especially by switching to a slightly better HTML-to-Markdown library.

[bliker]

I am currently working on one! It is not release ready but if want here is a simple demo.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52646091/syntax/selectio...

I want to totally abolish two window mode and all uncertainties about how the output will look like. my target the same as yours, to make the learning curve less steep.

[masukomi]

yes, it's here: http://www.texts.io/

[tutuca]

This needs a linux version... Great looking tool!