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mtogo on Aug 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I Think Posting HTML In Comments Should Work

Absolutely agree about bbcode, i was just using it as an example since i couldn't think of any good markdown replacements besides wikitext.

kijinbear on Aug 20, 2011 [–]

There's Textile, but its handling of blockquotes and code samples is much less convenient than Markdown. Github's wiki used to use Textile, and it sucked.

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