No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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  • markdown-mode

    Emacs Markdown Mode

  • Even emacs has a markdown mode:

    https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

  • markdown-here

    Google Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending.

  • It's definitely a workaround, but I use a Chrome extension to work around this a bit. I use "Markdown Here" to add a "turn Markdown text to formatted text" button to my Chrome bar:

    https://markdown-here.com/

    And then I use it on plain Markdown text in a GMail compose window. The rich formatted output it produces can then be pasted into a Google Doc, and it comes out really nicely, including support for headers, sub-headers, links, code blocks, and the rest. The main issue is that this is a one-way process, but so long as you keep the .md source somewhere else, lets you share a richly-formatted doc with others for final commenting/editing/etc.

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