We are working on an editor that's a little easier to use. Colloquially this kind of editor is called a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get).
If you go to https://stacker.news/lexical you can demo it and let us know what you think. It supports markdown shortcuts so you can start writing markdown and it'll style accordingly.
These kinds of editor are notoriously buggy, so please report any problems you find. If it's too buggy, we might end up launching it as an opt-in beta from the settings panel.
There's a little preview pane below the editor. This represents what the corresponding post/comment will look like after it's been converted to markdown (for storage) and rendered back. It's not exactly 1-to-1 with how it is displayed in the editor currently, but we'll iterate on that.
It also only supports a subset of stylings and options we'll eventually support. I figured it's best to stick to the bare minimum for now.
Let us know what you think!
test
, mark it and then press CTRL+K, it gets replaced with[test](url)
with the cursor having marked "url" (thus it will get replaced by what you type next)> line 1
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> line 2