Show HN: Collaborative text editing with unobtrusive markdown and code highlighting
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Re: Show HN: Collaborative text editing with unobtrusive markdown and code highlighting
#2Very cool!
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#3What is the stack?
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#4What is the stack?
It's almost pure front-end using Firebase + Firepad (https://firepad.io/). The editor uses CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/) and custom highlighting rules. The backend (what little of it exists) is in Flask :)
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#6Interface fail, uses about 30% of a 1920x1080display for the "editor".
Use proper UI scaling please.
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#7Why markdown everywhere, don't we have better markup languages?
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#8Add an easy way to link to other pages without having to type the full URL, and you've got a radical improvement on a wiki.
Perhaps you could use double-bracket links like GitHub wikis use, so this would be a [[ubpdk|link to another document]].
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#9Why markdown everywhere, don't we have better markup languages?
Really? What are they?
Markdown seems perfect for this case where the markup is the rendered content.
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#10Very cool, but what's the issue with mobile? I use Swype and it only inputs the first letter of each word.