Hi, I noticed that when a user selects ,
only the content of the emphasized text is selected so that the user can immediately start typing.
This is true for strong text as well.
However, when a user decides to create a ordered list, unordered list, or blockquote, the Markdown keyboard symbol is selected as well, which means that a user can’t immediately stop typing.
This is an annoyance to users who know Markdown, because I need to re-select only the content, and absolutely infuriating for a user who doesn’t because they might not even know what’s wrong.
Can this be updated so that only the content of whatever is being listed or quoted is selected, and not the keyboard symbol itself?
Finally, in the spirit again of helping people who don’t know Markdown. Could “strong text” be replaced with “bold text” and “emphasized text” be replaced with “italicized text”?
I like this suggestion, @codinghorror’s call on the wording here. I agree calling italics emphasised in the tooltip is somewhat confusing. Looking at Stack Exchange sites it uses “Emphasis” and “Strong” so there is precedent even in non tech sites. GitHub uses “Bold” and “Italic”.
Regarding making Italics/Bold smarter. There are quite a few edge cases… for example, when you highlight this block and hit “B” what do you expect?
- test
- text
-test
(3) test
4. test
[spoiler]
test
[/spoiler]
test [i]test
test[/i]
The ideal outcome has a LOT of magic rules, and we don’t want to have to write a full parser here.
I see (1) highlighting text, then hitting “B” as different from (2) not having text and hitting “B”. The first case does have a lot of magic rules. Perhaps until there’s rich text editing (if that’s at all a priority), include a button that links to Markdown syntax? An you know, I think the second case already works very well for “B” and should be replicated for lists and blockquotes.
마크다운에 익숙하지 않은 개인들에게 이 버튼들은 유용합니다. 디스코스에서 디스코드로 전환한 커뮤니티에서 멤버들이 처음에 피드백한 내용 중 하나는 포맷팅 툴바의 부재였습니다. 하지만 포맷팅 기법을 익힌 후에는 포맷팅 명령어를 직접 입력하는 것을 더 선호하게 되었습니다. 다만 스마트폰이나 태블릿을 사용할 때는 예외입니다. 이는 버튼들이 손가락 근처에 배치되어 있어, 내 폰 키보드의 특수 문자보다 접근성이 더 좋기 때문입니다. 이것이 제가 이 버튼들을 사용하는 이유입니다.