Hide markdown duplication in 'edit' view.

[patrick-kidger]

Description

I did a search but surprisingly could not see an existing issue for this. When editing a notebook, it would be nice to not see all of the markdown written out twice.

(This is kind of detail that makes Marimo a hard sell to my coworkers.)

I appreciate that you're getting bombarded with a lot of options for when to show/hide each individual widget in each mode. I'm sorry to be adding to that! :D

Suggested solution

A Jupyter-like solution in which the display switches between the underlying markdown and the rendered HTML, when you click on it to edit it.

I appreciate that Marimo is a bit unusual in that it has three representations of Markdown (the underlying Python), which may complicate this further. I think the underlying Python is kind of an implementation detail of the serialization format though, maybe no-one ever needs to worry about that...

Alternative

No response

Additional context

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[akshayka]

We've talked about making the "markdown cells" WYSIWYG (like Colab for example), but it hasn't been a priority.

I'm surprised that the duplication makes it a hard sell, but that's good to know — thanks for letting us know.

I think the underlying Python is kind of an implementation detail of the serialization format though, maybe no-one ever needs to worry about that

The Python API of mo.md() is required for interpolating Python values (which requires using mo.md(f""), including markdown in layouts, and conditionally writing markdown, all of which are not uncommon use cases. But you're totally right for pure markdown, mo.md is boilerplate.

[ngbrown]

I hope the issue with the PR is resolved and this comes back.