I tried Dendron, and I preferred to have a fully separate editor.

This way I context switch completely away from code.

Also it annoying to swap workspaces and keep the up.

Thanks for this, I'll give it a go.

I can see how having the environment be at least cosmetically different might help though. I feel like there must be a good enough solution to that, I'll have a poke around

Fyi, if you are ever looking for a fun project you might be able to implement this. The vscode editor source is available as a library https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

In Logseq, you can open the current note in the default system editor - I do this for long form note taking (in my case in emacs) but everything is back in the Logseq graph for connection and search and all its syncing goodies.

> I'm not sure why they all roll their own editor. Can't it be a plugin?

There are multiple reason, like editors having too much of their own baggage, or not being meant to be used as a foundation for a mature app. But I guess mainly it's a matter of licensing, and building your own editing-experience.

VS Code is for plaintext, while obsidian has deep rich-text-handling. It's probably not that easy to combine both flawless and still supporting all the plaintext-editing.

Seeing vscode users want their knowledge base in their editor makes me think of the parallel to emacs users.

I think you might be confusing the two different meanings of editor here.

1. Editor as in a complete program that is VScode and everything it entails.

2. Editor as in the actual text editing experience with syntax highlighting, code completion, etc.

You are likely thinking about the first type. Where the person you respond to is talking about the second one. The experience of editing markdown in VScode is a very pleasant one so I can see why people would want that editing experience in other markdown based note apps.