Even emacs has a markdown mode:
No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
I’m a developer working at a company that uses GSuite. My personal feelings about trusting Google aren’t really relevant, I’d love to use Markdown in GDoc, as would many of my coworkers!
I'd be happy if only they supported the CommonMark format properly in GChat..
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#53Markdown is a markup language. Google Docs is a WYSIWYG document editor. These are two fundamentally different approaches to the creation of written content. This question is kind of like asking why you can't edit Illustrator projects in Photoshop.
This was not about Google Docs at all, but about Google Drive. As anybody knows, you can let 3rd party apps do extra stuff with your Drive content, but the point is: why not natively support Markdown inside Drive. Besides, text content is also content.
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#54You just open a markdown editor, that has built in Google Drive support. And edit from there.
You are missing the point. I am spending most of my day inside VS Code, using it for writing Markdown content as well. Apples to oranges. I don't want the author of some 3rd party obscure app looking at my content without my consent. I don't say I trust Google 100%, but I trust Google more than 3rd parties that I know nothing about.
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#56Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily. Addition…
Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
>Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md.
That's not incompatible with the demographic being vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all.
"A lot of us" can still be an insignificant number compared to the Google Drive userbase and target demographic.
Now, "more than 10% of Google Drive users" might start getting somewhere. But I doubt it's even close to 1%. Google Drive is not a tool targeted to developers especially, and developers are not that much of a demographic to matter for mass market services.
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are dozens of you.
Outside of HN, people that actually avoid giving Google any data are almost nonexistent. People that use Markdown definitely aren't. There's a huge number of pragmatic developers that use Markdown and Google.
Seems like people can't fathom that "developers" in general are an insignificant demographic. Google Drive is used by a billion or more (including most Android users).
Developers are a handful of millions. Developers that use markdown outside of where they're forced to and actively want Google Drive to support it are even fewer.
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe the original author implies that you don't need to be a Richard Stallman type anymore, not to trust Google.
HN/Reddit is a bit of a bubble. Most people trust Google just fine with their files.
People who think Markdown users are a demographic major enough to matter in the context of the Google Drive userbase are also in a bit of a bubble...
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, if you are trusting 3rd party access to your data. Yet another layer of trust for a (niche) service that might just vanish into thin air. No, thank you.
It's not like Markdown is some rare, unheard of format. I think it's the most used file format for technical docs / content / notes these days, and it's here to stay (because it's simple, it's easy and it's portable). Besides, most well-known note-taking services and apps are based on Markdown, or they export losslessly to Markdown.
> I think it's the most used file format for technical docs / content / notes
That's why Atlassian supports MD for Jira and Confluence. Google Docs is first and foremost a Word Online competitor.
Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years
#60Well, why should they?
I find more critical that for all the dependecy on COM, the IDL editing experience in Visual Studio still sucks after about 30 years, and is basically like editing bare bones text files.