Plain Text Toggle Option for Snippets

Feature Ideas
1

Hi Scott / all,

Lovely extension. But, painful when trying to make Markdown snippets for Trello.

I ran into some pains with the rich text editor for snippets because it would automatically create bulleted lists and the like.

I think it would be ideal to have a plain text toggle button for the WYSIWYG editor.

Thanks

2

Hi Colton,

That's an interesting idea.

Our editor is pretty aggressive with converting *'s to bullet points. After it does one of these conversions though, you can undo and it will convert it back to what you had before the conversion.

3

+1 on this. 90% of the snippets I'm trying to port from TextExpander are in Markdown (most of my life is). I would love to be able to type without everything converting to rich text. It's really nice when that's what I want, but frequently a pain.

TextExpander has a dropdown where you can define a snippet as Plain Text, Rich Text, (or shell script, which isn't applicable… yet?). Being able to just set a snippet to plain text at the top and have it become just a plain text field without a toolbar would be very nice. Or if there was a toolbar, it would insert Markdown instead of HTML formatting, but that's probably less applicable to most people.

4

+1 on this feature. Moving from code snipet tools. While I love the extra features of TextBlaze I need particular snipets to be plain text rather than rich text.

5

Apologies if this was already asked, but I did not see it on the website anywhere.

I use the dash - for lists in my files instead of the •
When I type the dash into a snippet, it automatically changes it to the bullet and spacing changes, though control+z turns it back into a dash with spacing returning to the left (the way I actually want the list typed).

I'm interested in an option to turn on or off bullets, so when I type the dash it does not automatically turn it into a • with different spacing.

Example of what I am seeking:

  • Blah
  • Blah
  • Blah

Thank you.

6

Hi @Charlene_Schmidt Welcome to the forum! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the detailed request. This has been requested a couple of times (Snippets & Markdown, Plain Text Toggle Option for Snippets, Automatically indented numbering). I'll merge your post with the previous feature request topic for now.

Sadly, we still don't have a timeline on this. We'll keep this thread updated with any news.

Cheers!