Stream: Zulip
Topic: Almost Markdown
Chris Moesel (Feb 10 2021 at 16:03):
Does anyone else constantly get tripped up by the fact that Zulip does not render _underscore wrapped phrases_ in italics? Or is that just me? I'm constantly having to edit my messages to switch _word_ to *word*...
Josh Mandel (Feb 10 2021 at 17:30):
(Sometimes I just stick with the underscores and consider it low-fidelity markdown ;-))
Tim Abbott (Jun 10 2021 at 18:42):
This variation from markdown was motivated years ago by original Markdown being extremely bad about accidentally triggering italics syntax e.g. if you wrote foo_bar_quux, you'd end up with the bar in italics, which https://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?text=foo_bar_quux.
It'll likely go away when we finish migrating to CommonMark. (Zulip was involved in the CommonMark design process back in 2013-2014, and so CommonMark addresses many of the issues that made Markdown unworkable for a chat tool, but for technical reasons we haven't fully migrated to it).
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
