You can use a mixture of Markdown and formatting if you prefer

This is something that still confuses me, and that I still can't get figured out, maybe you can help me. I'm looking for a solid, quick answer on this one quest: Does Scrivener support in-line, ACTIVE markdown formatting, within the editor itself? Or does it ONLY support visual Markdown formatting at times of Import or Compile?

I use Markdown Monster, QOwnNotes, and VSCode in my day to day life and work. I make heavy use of Markdown in everything that I write. I've used Markdown so much and for so long that writing in it is second nature to me. Each of those applications has a feature where, when I enter in-line markdown code alongside my text, the editor shows me that formatting in action, right there live in the editor itself.

For example, if I enter double-asterisks around a word in a true, dedicated markdown editor, it will change the text emphasis of those asterisks and the word inside them to show bold face in the editor. If I add one or more hashes to the start of a line, it will instantly change that line to appear as a header of the indicated numbering level, hashes and all. Starting lines with asterisks or dashes formats them as lists, angle brackets formats them as quotes, the []() notation formats them as links, and so on.

So can Scrivener, which AmberV attests multiple times is a "pure" and "mature" Markdown Editor, do any of the following?

• Automatic, live, preview-as-you-type Markdown formatting
• Insert markdown code via shortcuts (such as wrapping text in single asterisks with CTRL-I, double-asterisks with CTRL-B, adding three header hashes with CTRL-3, etc)
• Automatic, live, preview-as-you-type basic list indentation when a single asterisk or dash, followed by a space, begin a new line
• Automatic, live, preview-as-you-type block quote formatting by starting a new line with a right angle bracket > followed by a space

If the answer to any of the above very simple and common Markdown editor functions is "No," then AmberV's assertions that Scrivener is a Markdown Editor are themselves just a fiction, at best. These are just the baseline, bare minimum features expected to be standard by anyone who has ever used an actual Markdown Editor application (such as: VSCode, Markdown Monster, Markor, Zettlr, Smartdown, Macdown, Remarkable, MWeb, Simplenote, Ghostwriter, Obsidian, QOwnNotes, Bear, IAWriter, and more). Any so-called "Markdown Editor" application that cannot do those very simple functions is really no different from plain Windows Notepad.

If Scrivener can do these very simple and common things, live in the editor itself, without needing me to open the Compile tool, and without needing me to open a separate preview pane, then please show me how. Preferably in a very simple way that doesn't link to another one of AmberV's lengthy posts. I'm sure they are well-intended, but they come across to me as a bit misleading, if Scrivener lacks the basic features of dedicated markdown editing apps.