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by yoha 4277 days ago
WYSIWYG can be counter-intuitive. I would prefer a large textarea for entering Markdown and a live preview aside (like the Reddit Enhancement Suite does).

A good think with Markdown is that learning can be incremental: at first, you just write some text. Later, with the preview, or with a short guide always displayed under the textarea, you learn that you can do some formatting.

On the other hand, people using WYSIWYG will go the other way: the will first see they can do a lot of stuff, and later get confused when stuff does not behave in the expected way.

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I've been using Dillinger.io a bit for that, but really what I would like is to be able to do that in ST3 native.

I heard Atom.io already does that, but I haven't been able to get it running on my laptop, and npm just keeps littering my filesystem with its `node_modules' directories.

What about using a program for that like iA Writer on the Apple platform, which than is synced via Dropbox to that server?

In fact I am using that, but with a different Markdown blogging plattform. ;o)