I generally don't even like syntax highlighting for Markdown. I find having the text jump around because it became bold or italicized distracting, and it's even worse when a header is suddenly a larger size and everything below it is pushed down the screen.
Markdown is simple, and I like working with it simply.
I suppose there is some value in having the more complicated aspects, like images and tables, checked for syntax so you can see if you've made a mistake, but I run a macro to generate those anyway, so I'm fairly confident in the result.
Yep but to me this feels like a lot of poor ux decisions too. I would def appreciate the visual indicators of italics and bold text but ffsake please dont toggle it every time I add a bloody keystroke. It's so jarring when editors do that. There are so many alternative designs where you can have both. For instance, on my vim the highlights only get added/removed when I switch back to normal mode, during editing nothing changes except for the actual keystrokes.
Markdown is simple, and I like working with it simply.
I suppose there is some value in having the more complicated aspects, like images and tables, checked for syntax so you can see if you've made a mistake, but I run a macro to generate those anyway, so I'm fairly confident in the result.