Compatibility

Other places where Markdown Here works

Besides Thunderbird, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo.

Please add any that you find, or more info/caveats about the existing ones!

Google Groups

Markdown Here works with Google Groups posts. You can use it in the GG rich compose box, or when you're posting via email. One caveat: Digest emails strip all styling.

Wordpress

Discovered by user Sina Iravanian: Markdown Here works in the web-based editor for Wordpress posts. Here's an example, using the options page sample Markdown: http://adampritch.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/4/

Caveats and tips (based on observations with default Wordpress styling):

• The Wordpress "Preview" button is your friend. What you see there (but not so much in the edit box) is what you get.
• Hitting Enter creates a new paragraph. When writing Markdown, this probably isn't what you want, and it causes some problems, like extra newlines in code blocks. Shift + Enter to the rescue -- it enters just a newline instead of a paragraph.
• When pasting text, leading spaces are lost. This seriously unfortunate, since leading spaces are significant to Markdown and to code.
  • Trailing spaces are also lost (collapsed to a single space). This is also unfortunate, since two trailing spaces are a forced newline in Markdown.
• Code blocks get an extra box around them.
• After Markdown-Toggling, fonts don't look right. Some of the syntax in a code block will be non-monospace, and all (or most?) of the normal text will appear in the default Wordpress font, rather than the font set in your Markdown Here options. But if you preview or post, the font will back to what's in the options (including the code blocks).
  • There are two instances (that I've found) where the font isn't right even the final post: <h3> and <blockquote>. Which is pretty weird.
• Definition lists (<dl>) aren't styled quite according to the options CSS.
• Like with the Yahoo rich controls, if the font (paragraph type) combo is clicked, focused-element finding gets busted and Markdown Toggle stops working. See issue #16.

Suggested workflow

• Edit directly in the Wordpress edit box. (Because the whitespace-stripping on paste is pretty fatal.)
• Use Shift+Enter rather than Enter.
• Use Preview liberally.

Evernote

A user discovered that Markdown Here works in the Evernote web interface.

Caveat: It seems that newlines are stripped out of code blocks, so they display as a single line.

Postbox

Postbox is a non-free desktop email client based on Thunderbird, and user markgoodson requested that Markdown Here support it. The Mozilla extension now works with it, but with some major caveats:

• There's no options page. However, you can open the "Config Editor" from the Preferences dialog and copy/paste options from Firefox's or Thunderbird's equivalent config editor (about:config in Firefox, "Config Editor" in Thunderbird). Note: Make them all string values.
  • I just couldn't figure out how to open a tab with the options page. This will probably require the assistance of Postbox or someone familiar with developing for it.
• Line breaks can appear mysteriously in code blocks. Postbox seems to insert unescaped newlines into the raw email when sending, which cause problems if they appear in the middle of a <pre> block.
• Gmail and Thunderbird reply exclusion doesn't work in Postbox. It doesn't seem to put the original email in a <blockquote>. You will have to use Markdown Here's selection conversion, like with Yahoo and Hotmail.
• Postbox won't be a first-class client for Markdown Here, partly because my trial license for it expires soon. If something breaks, create an issue.