[FR] Support markdown to italicize text

[annieappflowy]

To italicize text, add one asterisk or underscore before and after a word or phrase. To italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add one asterisk without spaces around the letters.

Reference:

• An Example For Implementing Markdown Syntax To Style Text In AppFlowy Editor #1100
• https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

[ankur12-1610]

I would like to work on this issue!

[annieappflowy]

Thanks! Assigned to you. The mentor on this issue is @LucasXu0 . If you have any questions, please feel free to reach him out on Discord.

[JRS296]

Hey @annieappflowy, can I try working on this?

[LucasXu0]

Hi, @JRS296. Sure. We have implemented _abc_ to abc, but have not implemented the *abc* to abc yet.

[JRS296]

Cool, getting to work right away

[Xazin]

@JRS296 Hey JRS, if you need help feel free to let me know. I have this on a commit if you want some reference.

[JRS296]

@Xazin Hey there, I've located the root of the issue, and am clear on how to go about it; However I am having trouble setting up the dev environment. I've opened up an issue for the same ( Issue #2045 ). Feel free to share your thoughts on the same, would be really helpful 👍

[Xazin]

This commit (AppFlowy-IO/appflowy-editor@b6a2803) for the italic shortcut.

I will try during next week to see if I can replicate your issue on my Windows machine, currently away from home with my MacOS laptop.

Cheers

[JRS296]

Hey @Xazin , managed to fix the dev environment, it was due to the AntiVirus interfering with the build. Has this Feature request been implemented with your recent commit? If so, I'll start work on something else 👍

[Xazin]

I haven't made the PR, but I can do that later today, if you want to complete it feel free to do so. (You can take my commit and just add a test, and it's done)

[Xazin]

Resolved by #2115

[annieappflowy]

_ works but * doesn't work
I'm using v0.1.2

[JRS296]

I'll have a look into it 👍

[Xazin]

_ works but * doesn't work I'm using v0.1.2

This must be due to the fact that appflowy_editor was removed locally from the repo, and it now uses the AppFlowy Editor dependency instead.

Or so I would assume at least..

[annieappflowy]

* * not working