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Markdown was explicitly designed to be a lightweight markup language for formatting text in a plaintext editor.

You will not get any joy reading/editing non-primitive things in a markdown language not designed for reading/editing non-primitive things.

You will get joy from using the right tool for the right task.

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> using the right tool for the right task.

which a plaint text editor is decidedly not since it fails at the most basic editing tasks - search and search&replace. That is the joy killer. Thus the tool described in the blog is closer to the right one for this task

Sorry, I can't think of a single plaintext editors, even going back to things like vi and ed, which don't support find and replace.

Markdown was designed for plaintext editors. Plaintext editors are - by the definition of markdown - a right tool for the job of markdown.

I don't have anything else to add here.

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