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A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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Add support for formatting text with Markdown #999

Closed lokesh-krishna closed 3 years ago

lokesh-krishna commented 7 years ago

Feature Description

There is currently no support to format text as italic, bold or to underline or strikethrough.

Screenshots

WhatsApp handles this really well on Android and iOS (have never used the web interface) though it would be better to implement Markdown tags than to come up with our own tags like WhatsApp did.

The way WhatsApp does it is that it turns

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Into

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This is already a filed issue on the Android repository: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/5534

This is to make the feature cross platform.

EvanHahn-Signal commented 3 years ago

We're trying to move all feature requests to the community forum and off of GitHub. Please weigh in there.

I'm going to close this issue not to say "we don't like this feature request", but more that discussion has moved elsewhere. Again, please visit the community forum to discuss this feature request and others.