Hello Prettier! I'm a big fan of using Prettier in my JavaScript projects, and I recommend it to all my friends an colleagues. I was really excited about the addition of Markdown formatting, until I found that unordered list items are delineated with * instead of - (see this issue for initial discussion).

I have never even seen * used for list items before Prettier started changing my markdown files. I think I knew it was part of the Markdown spec but I'd never seen it used in practice. I stopped using Prettier for Markdown as a result, and I'm not the only one. I do appreciate that Prettier is opinionated, but in this case the "opinion" was informed only by a measure of "what's more common" based on a Big Data query that I can't seem to access (so I can't assess the quality of the data). I would argue that, absent an advocate from either side, this opinion lacks context. And even taking the data on face value, - use stood at 39%, which I believe is enough to warrant a discussion around an option to support it.

Personally, - makes far more sense to me as a list item symbol because it matches the YAML notation for list items. It is also widely used in word processors to begin lists (type - on a new line and both Word and Pages will automatically convert it into a list for you). Not so with *.

A popular Markdown style guide recommends - for list items because * can be confused for bold/italic markers. Other style guides also recommend - (although I did find one guide that used * but did not explicitly recommending it).

Based on discussion on the initial issue, there is strong interest in an option for -, and even interest in outright changing to - entirely. What do others think? Thanks for your consideration.