alt Hacker NewsFunny that he didn't use the .md extension. Maybe because he started doing it before he expected his markup would merit its own filetype?
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twoodfin • last Friday at 10:30 PM
More likely because the whole point of Markdown was to be embedded in text, not a freestanding format for an entire document.
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"Too late now, I suppose, but the only file extension I would endorse is “.markdown” [...]
(I personally use “.text” for my own files, and have BBEdit set to use Markdown syntax coloring for that extension, which is why I never saw a need to endorse an official extension.)"
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extens...