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It's probably only me but isn't Markdown's main "selling point"/feature the raw files are human readable?

Looking at the screenshots, the only thing the "rendering" provides seem to be: 1) syntax highlights on code blocks; and 2) don't need to count the ordered bullets?

I guess if you need to verify that your markdown can be rendered (e.g no syntax errors), this would be helpful, but for that use case maybe a markdown linter is better?



Just because something is human readable doesn't mean there isn't value in making it even more readable? I would certainly prefer to read a markdown file rendered like this than completely raw.


It also renders headers, horizontal rule, bold, emphasis, strike through, underline, links, inline code, block quotes, and tables.


Markdown can also contain inlined HTML, which is not human readable.


Don’t let the semantic HTML people hear you </sarcasm>




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