On Markdown Editors and Fluff

Replied to [No title] by Rodrigo Ghedin (Manual do Usuário) Hot take: if you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting. Any plain text editor will do. The rest is just fluff. Rodrigo Ghedin published a short “hot take” on markdown: “[I]f you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting.” I largely agree, although I personally use using KDE’s Ghostwriter, which displays some markdown formatting and has some other nice quality of life features (built-in exporting UI being my favorite) that make me prefer it to pure plain text editor. Mr. Ghedin’s scorching hot take made me think of one recent case where I found Ghostwriter’s HTML preview pane (a step beyond “displays the formatting”) useful. I have recently drafted legal documents that include citations to unpublished U.S. District Court decisions. Below, see what a citation from Lexis looks like for a specific passage in a recent decision of the United…