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I don't know if this is another A/B test or not, but right now I have no way of using the plaintext Markdown editor while being able to see a live preview of the rendered result.

I am not going to want to have to click on the Rich Edit button just to get a preview and then click back again - over and over.

I'm on a desktop computer, with a proper full-size display: I have more than enough vertical screen space to be able to see the preview and the plaintext box at the same time.

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Furthermore, I noticed a bug with the Rich-Edit editor mangling up my hand-written Markdown: in my screenshot, when I wrote-out the first bullet-point (about mutually-exclusivity) I never wrote any backslashes and I left spaces before or after the backticks as-appropriate, but apparently switching to the Rich-Edit mode and back again caused it to change (and break!) my hand-written Markdown too:

It was this:

`left.Foo` and left.Bar` are mutally-exclusive. So if `left.Foo` then` left.Bar == false`.

...and it changed it to this:

`left.Foo` and left.Bar`are mutually-exclusive. So if`left.Foo`then`left.Bar == false\`.
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  • i find it odd that you both get the new editor and proper guidance, and i still get the old editor and old guidance, while we both have the dropdown for question type Commented Oct 31 at 21:11
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    @KevinB Try out the different options. The editor varies for me depending on what I chose. I assume that is a bug Commented Oct 31 at 21:12
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    @KevinB It's not A/B testing anymore... now it's (A×B×C)/D testing. I don't know how the raw metrics from multifactor experiments are going to be useful. Commented Oct 31 at 21:13
  • @MadScientist i ge the same editor and guidance for all types Commented Oct 31 at 21:14
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    @KevinB I get the Markdown+Preview option for the first question type, without an option to switch modes and the same as shown in this question for all other types. Commented Oct 31 at 21:19
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    I see that V2Blast edited them out, but I'd prefer you not use tags like those from revision #1. While I can understand the frustration, I don't see them as constructive. Even if you were trying to be funny, it's still at the expense of standard tagging. Commented Oct 31 at 23:15
  • @cocomac Acknowledged. Commented Oct 31 at 23:24
  • I hope this is controlled by a setting in your user profile: try disabling the "Enable new editor" setting on the Settings tab of your profile. Commented Nov 2 at 12:52

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Reset to default
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Thanks for the report. This should be fixed now. The editor in this version of the Ask Flow should have a third mode with markdown above and a preview below. screenshot of v3 editor

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