I would like to have the same WYSIWYG markdown editor as the one on Stack Exchange's websites.
The most wanted feature is the keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl + K to add backticks around selection, Ctrl + L to make links and so on. I'm pretty sure that will interest many people using GitHub all the day long.
I saw the post from 2008 (yes, it's far now) from Jeff Atwood itself explaining that Stack Exchange websites use WMD editor.
As seen there, the project becomes pagedown, but I don't know how to use it in a browser (Firefox at least) for a known list of websites. (It's super easy for a owned web site to integrate the library, but what about in a greasemonkey script to enable it where we want?)
As a workaround usable on Firefox, I can use the external editor stackedit to open the textarea
, but I prefer to have the editor directly in the web page. And as related there, StackEdit
connects to Google Analytics, Google Drive, Dropbox, Bitly, WordPress, Tumblr and probably some other ones.