is it possible to use the plain text markdown editor with the toggle between visual and text editor?

as a longtime Jira user I find that the plain text markdown editor provides me much more control over the rendered description and comments than the markdown auto-formatting features do. 

For those of you who prefer using markup languages, you can type in markdown and it will convert to fully formatted content as you go.

this does not provide me the control I am looking for and is constantly auto-formatting my markup in ways that i do not expect

Hello,

Great to see this is now supported within the Jira editor. However, it seems when you are exporting data to another system it still maintains the original markup for Jira. I am guessing this is converting the Markdown to the standard renderer and then displaying that. Is there anyway to have it export the text that was entered rather than the one that is converted?

Hi everyone,

Thank you for commenting and voting on this ticket. In order to provide a more modern and consistent editing experience we are now supporting markdown auto-formatting across Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Cloud in the New Jira Issue View. For anyone using multiple Atlassian products, we believe this will provide the best editing experience. Additionally, in the long term, we’re excited about opportunities this new technology will provide as we continue on our journey to helping you and your teams move work forward.

For Jira Software users keep up to date with the New Issue View here. For Jira Service Desk users, we’ve only just started the rollout of the new issue view. Many of you will begin to see it in the next few months. You can read more about Jira Service Desk-specific changes in our documentation.

Refer to this page to view the Markdown and Keyboard shortcuts you can now utilise.

Regards,
Nehal Jain
Jira Product Management

Hi, everyone.

We created a suggestion for Atlassian to provide a Plain-text Markdown (it currently has only WYSIWYG) as an option. If you're interested in that you're welcome to leave a comment/vote/watch https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72631

Kind Regards,

Eduardo Masiero
Atlassian Cloud SUpport

Dear Jira,

Add Markdown if you want, but don't take away the existing wiki markup abilities. WE don't want it. I know there are many that due but our company does not, and the community of folks I speak with do not. (I'm trying to get them to speak up, but they think this is going to be Borg'ed and we have no choice except to leave Jira).

Please help the markdown community. But don't harm your markup community.

Yes, people cannot believe that someone else likes the way it was because so many other tools use a different format. That's fine. Help them. Let them have markdown, but don't remove our wiki markup.

Atlassian, if you ever wonder why some of your long-time users (and previously big fans and evangelists) come off as disgruntled, it's things like this. We all want Markdown support in JIRA. It's a no-brainer. There are no arguments against it. Everybody else uses Markdown. It's a huge productivity drain switching back and forth. We've been begging for this for almost two years now.

So what do you do, Atlassian? You go and build a buggy, productivity-lowering WYSIWYG Markdown editor for Bitbucket which I'm sure far fewer people asked for (if any). See https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/14468 for many of its problems. It gets in the way so much that I'm just turning it off across all my instances. And we still don't have Markdown support in JIRA, e.g. when we create an issue, add comments, etc.

This is already implemented in JIRA in the new issue view:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracorecloud/the-new-jira-issue-view-938040503.html#ThenewJiraissueview-NewAtlassianeditor

Hey, if you come across this feature and agree that it's needed (especially if your engineers are requesting it), then ask your engineers to come on here and vote for it.

Markdown support for comments and description fields is needed!

I would like to see this as well. I write large amounts of detail into the description box. As my internet connection is not always perfect, when a connection is lost I can loose a large amount of work. Because of this I write most of my work into a local text editor and then paste it straight into description box. My favourite editor is Visual Studio Code which has a lovely Markdown editor but doesn't really understand what Jira uses.

I would really like to be able to write markdown in visual studio code, look at the preview window it gives me and then paste it straight into Jira.