Provide a Button

[jakov]

Using the shortcut for toggling is good, but some (including me) might prefer to have a button for toggling.

The button should ideally be greyed out when no text-field is selected.

[adam-p]

You're absolutely right. I dislike extra buttons being added to my browser, and the context menu item and shortcut key are good enough for me, but... I can certainly understand that other people would like a button. I should have added one long ago.

I'll try to get this implemented soon-ish.

[jakov]

Some might dislike extra context menus or shortcuts ;)

There are a lot of addons that provide optional buttons, e.g. one for almost every menu item. This way it would be very unobstrusive.

Another (more difficult) option would be to place a button/link next to every textfield on the page (maybe combined with whitelist and blacklist for where it should not appear).

Am 29.10.2012 um 04:12 schrieb Adam Pritchard notifications@github.com:

You're absolutely right. I dislike extra buttons being added to my browser, and the context menu item and shortcut key are good enough for me, but... I can certainly understand that other people would like a button. I should have added one long ago.

I'll try to get this implemented soon-ish.

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[adam-p]

There are a lot of addons that provide optional buttons, e.g. one for almost every menu item. This way it would be very unobstrusive.

Yes. And the browsers themselves also make it pretty easy to manage which buttons are showing in the chrome. I might just leverage that rather than creating a new option.

Another (more difficult) option would be to place a button/link next to every textfield on the page (maybe combined with whitelist and blacklist for where it should not appear).

I really don't want to do that. If I start modifying web pages, it'll introduce a whole new level of code complexity (and testing, and support...). Plus, it's pretty difficult to know where Markdown Here will work and not work (and to what degree) without trying. So... yeah, probably not going to put buttons in the page.

[adam-p]

Toolbar button added in v2.7.0, released today. I'll think about adding an inline button in the future, but I'm going to close this issue.