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rao-vtoday at 6:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Tables are the one thing in markdown where I’d prefer to emphasize edit ergonomics over good looking unrendered text. Making a quick manual change like adding column to a markdown table is just unfun. I’ve always thought a json like format that a linter can organize would be better.

Which is all to say I really like the table proposal here - adding an optional linter to make the data look tabular in unrendered markdown will make it even better


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freedombentoday at 7:51 PM

> Making a quick manual change like adding column to a markdown table is just unfun.

This is one of those moments where I realize that the vim life spoils me. It's so easy to do this in vim that I don't even think about. I probably use it a dozen times per day such as commenting out code.

Ctrl + v, select where you want the character, then hit I (shift + i), type your thing, hit escape, and Bob's your uncle.

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cushtoday at 8:27 PM

Any editor plugin makes it easy though