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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freedomben 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 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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jez an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Even in Vim, the editing experience falls over when making markdown tables that have non-trivial content in their cells (multiple paragraphs, a code block, etc.). I recently learned that reStructuredText supports something called "list tables":

https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...

Where a table is specified as a depth-2 list and then post processed into a table. Lists support the full range of block elements already: you can have multiple paragraphs, code blocks, more lists, etc. inside a list item.

This syntax inspired the author of Markdoc[1] (who came from an rST background) to support tables using `<hr>`-separated lists[2] instead of nested lists (to provide more visual separation between rows).

I have found various implementations of list table filters for Pandoc markdown[3][4], but have never gotten around to using any of them (and I've tossed around ideas of implementing my own).

[1] https://markdoc.dev

[2] https://markdoc.dev/docs/tags#table

[3] https://github.com/pandoc-ext/list-table

[4] https://github.com/bpj/pandoc-list-table

	▲	toastal 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		reStructuredText & AsciiDoc are so, so much better than Markdown since they have rich feature sets to actually build documentation, blogging, & so on. It’s a massive shame everyone would prefer _yet another Markdown fork_ like the OP.

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nine_k an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Same in Emacs, and, I suppose, in any editor with enough self-respect to support vertical blocks.

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cush an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Any editor plugin makes it easy though