Here’s something I want. It’s unlikely to get built anytime soon, unless someone takes terrible pity on me, but …
Inspired by things like TinyPaste and the like, I want a site that does one thing and does it well — lets you edit things on one side in a very smooth text-like editor and displays, simultaneously on the other side of the screen, the result of running the first side through Markdown. When you’re done, clicking a single button should copy the resultant HTML into your buffer to be pasted elsewhere at your leisure. optionally clearing the buffer ready for the next bit. (If it applied SmartyPants as well, that’d just be extra gravy, really.)
Ironically, half or more of this tool is already created. Witness the WMD advanced demo, which does the whole editor / split-screen part up front. If it had an auto-magical Copy-HTML-to-Buffer button, it’d be a goodly part of what I want.
Why do I want such a mad thing? Because writing / editing HTML is hard, and sometimes I forget to Cut-n-Process text through the doohicky I already have made for the purpose.
I suppose LJ could add a Markdown-parsing mode to their editor. I’m not holding my breath.
Yes, this is me being grumpy.
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