What’s missing in most of these markdown editors (including this one), is the ability to copy the formatted document as clean rich text, for pasting into email and other apps.
For example, a simple document with a list gives you this very clean HTML if you “copy code”:
<p>Here is an email with a bunch of lists:</p>
<ul><li>
<p>Item one</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Item two</p>
<ul><li>
Item three</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
But if you copy the rich text and paste into a contenteditable field, you get this (ugh):
For example, a simple document with a list gives you this very clean HTML if you “copy code”:
But if you copy the rich text and paste into a contenteditable field, you get this (ugh):