Markdown support in Comments

[sunjam]

Did not see this request previously submitted, so requesting Markdown support in official Comments app. Markdown support is available in a lot of different apps, but notably absent from basic Comments. Thanks for considering!

edit: Discussion about Comments here

[juliusknorr]

Makes sense imo, although we should probably just have a reduced set of supported syntax. cc @nextcloud/designers

[trev-dev]

We use the comments to keep a record of conversation for collaboration, and the newlines are even stripped out. It makes it hard to say more than one or two sentences at a time. Would absolutely love markdown in comments.

[stefan-niedermann]

reduced set of supported syntax

Which syntax would you remove and why?

[fthommen]

reduced set of supported syntax

I can't see a benefit in a reduced set of supported syntax. There are already enough MD variants in the wild. If MD should be supported, then I suggest to stick to an already existing variant or to https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.

[stefan-niedermann]

I suggest to stick to an already existing variant or to https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.

If markdown should be supported then it makes lots of sense to use the already existing and established markdown parser from Nextcloud Text - Your proposal is nice but it would just introduce another set of supported syntax and is therefore not really an enhancement and introduces other issues compared to Nextcloud Text.

[fthommen]

well, as I said: "I suggest to stick to an already existing variant or ...". If NC has its own parser, then this is an already existing variant :-)

[Dunrar]

Is this being worked on? The comments in the Deck app are not very usefull right now, compared to Trello.

[reos-rcrozier]

Increasing the allowed length of comments would also be useful.