@felix, I agree that plugging md or html into every editor product is overkill. Coming from a </markup> background, markdown was a guilty pleasure and using anything but the core spec felt like using the wrong tool for the job. For me the ideal usage is to make pure text more readable in simple unformatted text editors and it does that very well. The uplift to editor markup is a side benefit of having a spec, but once lifted I rarely go back to the md, since I've exceeded its requirements.