Re: Why is stdio ... stdio?

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On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
On Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:25:45 PM MST Neia Neutuladh via 
Digitalmars- d-learn wrote:
It's not a forum. It's a newsgroup that happens to have a web 
interface. Newsgroups are text-only. So bbcode is out, html is 
out, but interpreting markdown might be reasonable. But 
nobody's done that work.

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.

- Jonathan M Davis

I just want to say everyone who doesn't use the web-interface has 
to look at markdown anyway because people still write code in 
backticks etc. despite no support; even I do that.

Using markdown without support to me is not so much about whether 
it should be highlighted or not, but just that you can separate 
content from code in your message.

Similar to how signatures are usually separated by 3 or more 
slashes and then a new line:

Ex:

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Some signature