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Very good point. There would be an awesome opportunity for some software engineer to create such editor (cross-platform of course). Also it could support other markup languages such as Textile as they don't differ from each other so much.

Also what would help this is that the Markdown was standardized and would have these features included out-of-the-box.

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> Also what would help this is that the Markdown was standardized and would have these features included out-of-the-box.

There is technically a standard Markdown dialect called CommonMark. The main problem with it is that its specification is example-driven and there's lots of places where things are up for interpretation, but for the most part it achieves its goal. What it really needs is standardization of extensions like tables, diagrams, etc.

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