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by meowface 4648 days ago
Does anyone know of something like this, but for Markdown?

So, like a collaborative Markdown document editor, as well as a simple way to store those documents and choose them for reading/editing later.

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You can actually do that in Plunker right now by having an `index.md` file instead of `index.html` [1].

In the absence of an html index, the plunker preview server will try transpiling to html from different languages. Markdown is currently supported.

Also transpiled are things like less, scss, coffee-script and more. Essentially, your html requests a file with the target suffix (e.g.: .css) and the preview server will search for compatible source files to transpile to that target.

[1] http://plnkr.co/edit/?p=streamer&s=markdown

Wait, that's backwards. The point of Markdown is that you type the formatting quickly, instead of clicking buttons on a toolbar.

That animation seems to be about clicking buttons on a toolbar that will secretly generate Markdown formatting for you.

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