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Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

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Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

#11
Very cool! So simple, I love it.

One thing that would be great is a bit better support for lists (todos, unordered and ordered) where when you press enter once it will add another `-` or `- [ ]`, etc item and when you press it a second time it becomes a blank line.

Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

#15
The first time I saw this technique was while trying to figure out how GitHub styled the keyword:value tokens in their search box. It's a very cool technique, and you've done a very nice job of integrating it with a markdown parser!

Only down side to it is that you cant apply any padding to the styled inline elements.

Re: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea

#18

Really cool! I just love the simplicity of it: has no drawbacks compared to regular textarea, but has lots of benefits. you basically improved textarea, by a lot! I also made a similar thing a while ago called contextarea.com, maybe, I should add overtype!

Having to use a monospaced font is a pretty big drawback. To me, it means I wouldn't use this for a product that wasn't intended for a techie programmer audience.

Not that it isn't a really cool project! I'm only saying it has clear drawbacks.

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