[adamhyde]

I think tho that Markdown hasnt won the plain text battle - plain text has. Only a very small percentage of plain text docs are markdown...so small it wouldn't even count...

[ahoge]

Reddit, Stack Overflow, GitHub/BitBucket (readmes, tickets, wikis), and it's also used by a couple of CMSs, blog platforms, and static website generators.

Virtually all of the text I write is Markdown. Even this very comment is written in a subset of Markdown (and so is yours).

[adamhyde]

Yes and notice how few have used it even here. Most replies are plain text.

[ahoge]

Paragraphs and emphasis are frequently used here.

[adamhyde]

paragraphs are plain text :)

[ahoge]

No, they are not. It's not directly spit into an element with white-space: pre-line or white-space: pre.

It's converted into paragraphs. Just like stuff inside asterisks is converted into emphasis.

[adamhyde]

sigh. plain text paragraphs cant be claimed to be invented by markdown. sorry. good try tho.