bantic
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8 years ago @eguitarz Neat idea! This is probably theoretically possible with mobiledoc-kit at the moment, but would be fairly challenging. The onTextInput method (docs) will allow you to detect markdown-style input. There isn't a direct hook for deletion yet in mobiledoc-kit, though. It would be possible to hack around this using the cursorDidChange, didUpdate, or postDidChange hooks to detect when a deletion will/did occur. But this points to the need for a first-class willDelete hook or similar that you could use to detect when the user is about to delete into (i.e. delete the last character of) a marker, and optionally remove the markup from that marker and update its (plain) text.
There is also some discussion of augmenting the the onTextInput hook to be called whenever the text changes (e.g. for deletions as well as additions of text) in #404.
eguitarz
gustawdaniel
Would it be possible make mobiledoc-editor supports markdown via postEditor? It doesn't require preview window, we can render it directly inside the editor when user typed a markdown syntax tailing with whitespace. The idea is from https://www.typora.io/
The difficult part is deletion. When deleting a rendered text, can we recover it to markdown'ed text rather than delete it? e.g.
In editor we typed italic text with markdown syntax, and it rendered correctly.
When hit delete, it should be able to recover markdown syntax than deleting last character of italic text,