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The editor appears to be a WYSIWYG editor, but appears to edit markup instead.
Why is this?
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Because this site is targeted at business intelligence professionals, it was a design choice to use an editor that was less WYSIWYG and more powerful.
Braintapper Exchange uses the WMD editor, which uses the Markdown markup language. Part of the reason why we chose this was that this editor is being used for other popular technical question and answer sites, and we felt that it was the best choice.
Markdown is a simple markup language that uses a simple syntax for editing text.
It also lets you enter code blocks like this:
We do provide a preview block below the textarea to give you an impression of what the item you're editing will look like.