Markdown Editor : the text becomes enormous after a dash : why?

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If after a text I do [ENTER] and write a dash, the text becomes enormous. What is the purpose of that ?
Before:

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After:
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Is it normal ?

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Single or multiple dashes on the next line is interpreted as heading1 by the markdown standard

Like this

Line followed by single dash

So yeah, it's normal

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Ah OK... Thank you
I asked because I didn't find this in the manual...

So # is not the only way to have a title... I noticed anyway that the - title is smaller than the # title...

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Anyway I don't understant why the markdown editor (on the left on the previous image) changes the appearance of the text we put. There's a viewer for that (on the right on the previous image) !!!
It would be more clear to have only code on the left and the result on the right...

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It's kinda an unintended feature. The general direction in markdown editors is to make them behave like wysiwyg, more accurately described as instant rendering editor. The example of such editors is Typora and MarkText. In Joplin, contributors have developed few plugins to achieve that goal.

This header rendering feature was originally present in our upstream editor (Codemirror 6) and there wasn't much need to take it out. I understand that it might look like a bug since indeed it wasn't intended. However, putting in work to remove it, doesn't seem to me like a great time investment since one way or another the editor is moving towards instant rendering anyway.

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Thanks for this explanation !

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My hope for Joplin is it adopts full Typora-like editing -- or an option for it. The Rich Markdown plugin is aight, but seamlessly hiding all the code bits except for the one you're working on is very nice, IMO. I have CSS to hide link URLs except when on the active line, and it works but it's janky when you go to edit any parent block that contains a link. It "confuses" CodeMirror as to how long the current line is, so the cursor position is weird until I click or use the arrow keys enough times that it updates its count.

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The Extra Editor Settings plugin might resolve this :slight_smile: .

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Innnteresting. I need to redo all my other CSS changes to work with CM6 first, though. :melting_face: