Emacs mode for Stack Overflow's markdown

Question

I am using Org-mode in Emacs to handle all my technical documentation. I would like to use Emacs to prepare questions that I have for Stack Overflow. Is there an Emacs mode

Answer 1

Pandoc has support for reading a subset of org-mode and can output markdown.

In other words, you can keep writing in org-mode, including writing italics /like this/, and then export to markdown. From emacs you can convert to markdown by selecting the region, hitting C-u M-S-\ and typing pandoc -r org -t markdown, getting output like this:

In other words, you can keep writing in org-mode, including writing italics *like this*, and then export to markdown.

Or, you can save the file and convert it at the command line.