Magic Shortcuts for Markdown

[jeromesimeon]

Feature Request 🛍️

I like not having to move my cursor when I write text and one way to do that is to use markdown things in your text and have the editor automatically convert them as you write. Am I the only one who likes that kind of editing?

Demoed here on the editor from Slab: https://slab.com

Use Case

As a user who understands markdown, I like to be able to type markdown in the editor and have it converted for me to WYSIWYG.

Possible Solution

Look at sequences of characters during editing and detect markdown things in 'em.

Notes

The example above was written without moving the cursor to go to the toolbar, or having to select parts of the text, but only by typing.

[Cronus1007]

@jeromesimeon I would like to implement this one.

[d-e-v-esh]

This seems to be lots of small features. Should this be all in one go or should we go one by one?

[jolanglinais]

@d-e-v-esh I agree, this will be incremental. I think we should go one by one and use this Issue to track the changes.

[d-e-v-esh]

@jeromesimeon @irmerk I created a PR #288 a while ago that does exactly the same thing. Maybe we can build on top of that to implement these features after that is merged.

[jolanglinais]

To reiterate from my comment in #288, that's a good start to build on for this Issue.