Main issue is that I prefer WYSIWYW to WYSIWYG. There are many reasons why one may be preferable to another in various situations but I find that I prefer WYSIWYW for my workflows
My biggest gripe is that you can't just type the things you're used to typing and expect it to figure them out. Within fifteen minutes I tried to create a multiline blockquote (which you do by typing '>>>'). I was hoping for this:
quote
goes
here
And instead I got a single line blockquote containing some of the markup for a multiline one:
>>quote
goes
here
I can't figure out how to do the things I used to do without reaching for the mouse. And I really hate using the mouse.
Also, as a coder I do everything I can to reduce unnecessary cases of mutable state. The fact that my cursor now has a state that I have to keep track of really gets under my skin.
It's hidden until you click the 'A' icon. What's the major problem here? It doesn't take up any extra space and isn't visible unless you actively open the feature.
It enabled itself by default for me. Clicking the 'Aa' does hide the extra UI elements, but doesn't disable the auto-formatting.
> It doesn't take up any extra space
It doubles the height of the input box when it's visible.
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I don't mind the feature (in fact, it's nice to get immediate feedback on Slack's "almost Markdown but not quite" syntax), but I can see why others do mind.
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I can't figure out how to do the things I used to do without reaching for the mouse. And I really hate using the mouse.
Also, as a coder I do everything I can to reduce unnecessary cases of mutable state. The fact that my cursor now has a state that I have to keep track of really gets under my skin.
It enabled itself by default for me. Clicking the 'Aa' does hide the extra UI elements, but doesn't disable the auto-formatting.
> It doesn't take up any extra space
It doubles the height of the input box when it's visible.
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I don't mind the feature (in fact, it's nice to get immediate feedback on Slack's "almost Markdown but not quite" syntax), but I can see why others do mind.