Oh, nice; I'm always adding #format_date and #format_time methods to my formatting_helper.rb striaght off the bat, so it's nice to know there are built-ins - although I'm not keen on just overriding defaults, if only so other programmers don't get lost working out why the defaults aren't the same.

"I've been using Copy with Style command, which I took from this blog post. It copies text selection as RTF so when the code is pasted into Keynote, it looks exactly the same as it looked in TextMate, including font style, size and colors. Code can be then modified in Keynote, while the style is preserved." Useful!

"This javascript function can then read in the current content of the text area, format it using a trimmed down version of textile, and then set the content of a DIV with the resulting HTML. The end result of all this is live comment preview, with textile formatting." Live textile preview functionality.

"WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code." Very impressive; very coherent. Worth further investigation.

After a year or two of being completely sold on Textile, I'm really thinking that there's a lot to this Markdown lark. Namely, readability