
#MARKDOWN EDITOR FOR WINDOWS CODE#
Markdown used to write documentation in the Visual Studio Code editor. Even though I had never used it before, working with both raw HTML and rich-text editors instead, I grasped the brilliantly simple idea and grew to love it within just a few hours. I myself have quickly adopted Markdown in my daily endeavors. Technical writers, bloggers and other people dealing with online writing joined the ranks of users. As the docs as code philosophy gained popularity over time, more and more people employed Markdown in their daily work, appreciating the ease of use and the speed it offers. It was used mostly by programmers and developers at first. This is probably the most important reason why Markdown has gained considerable popularity. The syntax provided by this Perl-based converter is easy to remember and easy to employ as you write. For over 15 years it has offered an easy and efficient way to convert plain text into HTML with the help of shortcodes. Markdown is, putting things simply, a text formatting syntax. # Markdown - the syntax of the programming community Let’s dive a little deeper into this topic to get a more elaborate answer as to how. One of the popular questions that we receive time and time again is the availability of Markdown editing. Even though it is mostly developed by CKSource, it has a large community of contributors backing the development efforts. Posted onĬKEditor is an open source rich-text editor. Supposedly able to write anything from a blog post, a radio play, to full-scale apocalyptic novel trilogy, a wheelchair service manual, and a salesman handbook for CMS systems online.
