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Does Jira still have multiple flavours of markdown for different fields and editors? Last I used it, it used a different flavour for creating and editing a ticket. Also another flavour for bitbucket. None of these were compatible and it would convert between them in the backend but I was left confused every time when I would have to switch formatting styles

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I remember that from a while back, and getting annoyed - it doesn't appear to be something that annoys me at the moment so it might have been fixed, but on reflection I tend to just use the default rich text editor now.

It takes markdownish input but converts it to rich text as you type - so asterisk-space starts a bullet point list, etc.

I actually can't remember if it has a dedicated markdown mode anymore; the rich text editing supports the usual shortcuts that mean I tend to stick with it.

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