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Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

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Post by ryanlbrown »

We're trying to deviate from the common side-by-side pattern. It's not perfect, but we couldn't wait any longer to share it. We're working on accounts. Be sure to leave your email in the sidebar if you'd like to participate in the Beta. Let thauburger and I know what you think. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

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Post by yukinon »

This looks really great, and I had fun playing around with it.

One small thing that stuck out: there isn't any way to make a newline. You have to make an entirely new comment. Or is there some shortcut key I'm missing? On a lot of text editors, it's Shift + Enter.

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

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Post by ryanlbrown »

yukinon wrote: post #3

This looks really great, and I had fun playing around with it. One small thing that stuck out: there isn't any way to make a newline. You have to make an entirely new comment. Or is there some shortcut key I'm missing? On a lot of text editors, it's Shift + Enter.

You're right. We chose not to allow hand-wrapped paragraphs because the newlines have no effect on the resulting rendered HTML. In some cases, it will allow newlines (lists, blockquotes).

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

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Post by jheimark »

This is great stuff. Writing markdown is much more rewarding when it pops as you write it like this. I usually write using half of my screen, using another window as a reference, so side-by-side never works for me. This works well!

small suggestion: would be great to have a way to navigate by keyboard between paragraphs (tab / shift-tab?). if that feature exists, I couldn't find the keystrokes.

Re: Show HN: Writebin, an inline markdown editor

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Post by ryanlbrown »

jheimark wrote: post #6

This is great stuff. Writing markdown is much more rewarding when it pops as you write it like this. I usually write using half of my screen, using another window as a reference, so side-by-side never works for me. This works well! small suggestion: would be great to have a way to navigate by keyboard between paragraphs (tab / shift-tab?). if that feature exists, I couldn't find the keystrokes.

Thanks for trying it out. We spent some time trying to get arrow keys (and crtl+p crtl+n) to move to the next/previous paragraph when you hit the bottom/top of the current one, but a cursor position bug prevented that from working so we cut it for now. This something we definitely want though, we'll bring it back as soon as we can.
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