GitHub Writer: Simplify GitHub Writing with CKEditor Extension
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GitHub Writer is a WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub. The extension is available when creating or commenting on issues, reviews, pull requests, and wikis.
It provides all the features available in the GitHub plain-text editor, including Markdown input. For features like tables, it offers a much easier experience in comparison to plain-text Markdown and allows users to be more productive. No more switching to the Preview tab to see what you write!
It is powered by CKEditor 5, a modern JavaScript rich-text editor.
GitHub Writer is an Open Source project and your questions, feedback and contributions are always welcome.
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- Great WYSIWYG editor for writing on GitHub
- Makes creating complex content easier
- Essential for anyone working on GitHub
- Improves readability of content while editing
- Helps with managing markdown formatting
- Does not work with wiki pages
- Limited functionality in editing certain formats
- Some features like drag and drop for videos don't work
- Doesn't work on Android browser
- Lacks merging capabilities for table cells
- Great extension!
- Doesn't work on Wiki pages
- Essential app for anyone working on GitHub
- Very useful extension
- I can't imagine using GH without this extension
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GitHub Writer requires very minimum permissions.
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GitHub Writer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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