while thinking about: https://discord.com/channels/1014184997751619664/1403798488613130250/1403798488613130250

another situation where this annoying-ness is encountered is when someone enters a - as their bullet character. When they press enter and a bullet is included it turns it into a heading momentarily, a pretty confusing situation for first time users and/or users unfamiliar with markdown.

Users who don't know about markdown and are trying to use bullets in a non-bullet env often reach for - so it's overall a very unforgiving situation for them.

Some solutions come to mind:

• aggressive and compliant approach: always replace bullet characters with + / *
• non-compliant approach: require more than one -- for a h2 to get created
• complex approach: model the ideal of provisional input: when the editor places a bullet for you, the editor is not trying to create an h2. And if non-bullet behavior happens, like they press newline, or mouse away, or something like that. The text is not "committed". The bullet is only committed if they enter input.