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		philwelch on Sept 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) In terms of wiki syntax, HTML is just so damned noisy that I'm fine with Markdown--but mostly because Markdown is fairly standardized and I don't have to learn a totally different syntax for everything.

smitty1e on Sept 21, 2019 [–]

"Fairly"

So I spend as much time faffing about with how this particular tool does anchors as I would just doing the "a" tag outright in HTML.

philwelch on Sept 21, 2019 | [–]

The real question is why aren’t you using the WYSIWYG editor most wikis have these days.

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