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I like writing markdown because it is so simple, but I agree with the author that it is too simple for more advanced stuff.

But at the same time, I find the writing experience for more advanced stuff too poor. The author talks about references, but do we have a language server that can look up available references, headlines, figure names etc and help you auto complete?

That’s what would make me take the plunge to a more advanced system.



> do we have a language server that can look up available references, headlines, figure names etc and help you auto complete?

That would be a total gamechanger! Having the ability to do ref/doc links and not have to worry about stale topic headers is another thing I loved about writing in rST that I miss now that I'm back in markdown.


Yeah, the rst lsp server (esbonio) can autocomplete and jumpto references in your project. I believe the markdown lsp can do this too, but only to a limited extent.




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