On Friday, November 9, 2018 1:27:44 AM MST Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis > > wrote: > > Honestly, having markdown in messages being typical would be > > _really_ annoying for those of us not using the web interface, > > because we'd see all of those backticks and the like as > > backticks, not as syntax highlighting. It would be like seeing > > html, albeit far less intrusive. I for one would much rather > > that things just stay as pure text and that we not be adding > > any features to the web interface that encourages adding _any_ > > kind of markup to messages. The web interface makes it easier > > for folks who don't want to use a newsgroup or mailing list to > > interact with the newsgroup, but it's still a newsgroup, and > > _many_ of us use it as such. > > You used markdown three times in your message.
No, I didn't. I just used underscores, which has been used with plain text for emphasis for decades. Supporting markdown, would involve stuff like backticks for code highlighting, and special markup for urls - stuff that doesn't actually provide information to someone who's reading plain text but just gets in the way, whereas the underscores _do_ provide information to someone reading plain text. - Jonathan M Davis