Make Markdown formatting disableable again

[rohieb]

Description

Since CIDER is the only composer now in riot-web, it is apparently no longer possible to disable formatting completely. I've never felt the need for formatting in messaging apps at all, and want my keystrokes to appear like I wrote them. Now I have to first remember which characters I have to escape in the message, invest additional time to escape them (if it is at all possible, see #11230), and can no longer chat as quickly as before, so this is a regression for me.

Please re-introduce a setting to disable formatting in the new composer, preferrably as a global per-user setting.

Steps to reproduce

• Use the new composer to send a message which includes characters used in Markdown formatting, e.g.: *dances across the room*, ASCII smileys like >_>, or random code snippets.

Version information

• Browser: Firefox 72.0.1
• OS: Debian unstable
• self-hosted riot-web version: 1.5.7

[aaronraimist]

Duplicate of element-hq/element-meta#1189, please thumbs up that one

[aaronraimist]

Now I have to first remember which characters I have to escape

Also a better workaround is to start your message with /plain rather than escaping individual characters

[rohieb]

Duplicate of element-hq/element-meta#1189, please thumbs up that one

Oh thanks, that was unexpectedly far down the list, no wonder I didn't find it ^^