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Hi,

I read this question: Is there any way to format (markup, markdown, rich text) text in case events?.

Looking at the comments posted, it seems that the answer to "supporting markdown" is "use the HTML rich editor".

For me, the two are not equivalent. I use Markdown everywhere so I know it by heart and, granted, it might not be as powerful as your rich-text editor, but with browser extensions, I can edit text areas with my favorite editor, something that I cannot do with rich text editors.

So is the option of Markdown something that you would consider for a future version of FB?

Case FC1922847

edited May 2 at 15:23

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asked Mar 5 2011 at 20:47

melo
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+1 - Another benefit of Markdown over the rich text editor is speed. I notice a slow down in page loads and editor perf when I have the rich text editor enabled. – silent__thought May 2 at 15:17

Stack Overflow has a great markdown editor. Please use it. Remember that mainly programmers use Fogbugz and markdown is what we want. Not fancy html for sales people. – Dilbo May 3 at 0:07

+1 It'd be great if markdown was incorporated into all the text editors in fogbugz--case events, wiki pages, etc. – Andrew Jesaitis May 11 at 16:14

FogBugz FAQ · Answer 1 · 2011-03-08 19:03:04Z UTC

The implementation of a rich text editor supports the use case of making things bold and italic and "pretty".

We consider the request for a Markdown editor to be a different thing altogether. It's not really about the text. It's about the editor/protocol. You're right. This should live as its own feature request.

Vote it up if you want Markdown.

Ilya Sterin · Answer 2 · 2011-04-28 02:01:11Z UTC

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Great request, please implement.

answered Apr 28 2011 at 2:01

Ilya Sterin
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Jay · Answer 3 · 2011-05-04 16:14:10Z UTC

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Yes please! Would love to be able to write wiki articles without the need to use the mouse all the time and deal with copy/paste problems of the rich text editor.

answered May 4 2011 at 16:14

Jay
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Ryan McIlmoyl · Answer 4 · 2012-02-23 19:43:24Z UTC

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My method of dealing with this has been to use markdown_py, then copy/paste the resulting HTML.

answered Feb 23 at 19:43

Ryan McIlmoyl
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Aditya Advani · Answer 5 · 2012-02-29 09:45:00Z UTC

Let me direct you guys to the very awesome Showdown script http://softwaremaniacs.org/playground/showdown-highlight/

This is an all-js markdown parser - with a nice preview GUI

I don't know about the exact license, but I can't imagine rolling this into FogBugz would be too difficult ... please do roll it in tho ... GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) is my organization's #1 reason to use GitHub pages over FogBugz Wiki ... when everything else is in FogBugz / Kiln

Feature request: markdown formatting

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