Document editor
Learn how Cheqq's built-in editor handles Markdown documents and skill files, with version history.
Cheqq includes a Markdown document editor that opens as an overlay from Files, from a Wapp's Skills list, or directly from an agent's tool output in chat. (Office files — Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF — take a different path: see Documents for generation, viewers, and the presentation canvas.)
What it edits
The editor works with .md, .markdown, and .txt files. Skill files (used to extend what a Wapp's agent knows how to do) get an extra frontmatter section — name and description — edited separately from the document body. Files larger than 1 MB open read-only.
Formatting
The toolbar supports headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, links, bulleted/numbered/task lists, blockquotes, and code blocks. Images render inline, and footnotes are first-class: a [^1] reference shows as a superscript chip, its definition as a marked block, and both round-trip through save unchanged. Prose is typeset at document scale — a real heading ramp, display headings, and proper table and code styling.
If saving would change any of a document's original formatting — unusual Markdown, embedded HTML — your first save automatically keeps the untouched file as an Original version in history. Nothing is lost, and there is no warning banner to dismiss.
Autosave and versions
Every edit schedules an autosave a few seconds after you stop typing, but autosave only writes a version snapshot — it does not update the live document. The live document is written only when you explicitly save (the Save button, or Cmd/Ctrl+S). The save-status indicator reflects this distinction directly: "Unsaved · backed up a moment ago."
Version history
Open the history panel from the editor header to see every save, autosave, and agent-written revision, each labeled with its origin and author. Selecting a version shows a preview, or a line-level diff against the current document. Restoring a version replaces the live document and is itself saved as a new version — so restoring is never a dead end.
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