The internet is made of text, and a lot of it isn't formatted nicely.
Markdown and CommonMark are markup "languages" that look similar to how people format plain text anyways. This plugin automatically reads any text in <pre> tags and attempts to format it using CommonMark.
Humans tend to emphasize words in certain ways, which Markdown supports.
But why is this so nice?
- Automatically convert plain-text files
- Support CommonMark, the attempt at a well-specified Markdown language
- Make the web just a tiny bit nicer looking
# Even code looks prettier!
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root