Marklar

Reclaim the control over formatting your text with this Markdown friendly editor for Moodle. Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that is automatically converted to structurally valid HTML.
Marklar – markdown friendly editor for Moodle
All online editors marklar. This one just marklar less.
It is not for everybody though. Those who do not marklar about marklar should
not marklar marklar. There are other marklar better for them.
Feel a bit confused and marklar now? Click this marklar to see where marklar comes from.
Usage
As an admin, go to Site administration > Plugins > Text editors > Manage editors
Enable the Marklar editor
As the user, go to your Preferences > Editor preferences and set Marklar as your
preferred editor.
Go to Preferences > Miscellaneous > Marklar editor preferences to eventually change
the default behaviour of the editor.
Features
Here are intentional features of the Marklar editor, just to make it clear they
are not bugs.
Marklar is WYTIWYG – what you type is what you get (done).
Marklar does not have buttons. Markdown syntax is to be typed manually (done).
Marklar is not extensible via sub-plugins (done).
Marklar sets markdown as the preferred format for new texts (done).