Gutenberg: Feature request - Markdown block: convert Markdown to blocks

[alshakero]

This is a feature request.

Yesterday I was moving some posts from Jekyll to WP.com. The Markdown block works brilliantly but _native_ Gutenberg blocks are far nicer to interact with and customize.

It seems like the MD block converts the Markdown to blocks anyways but once I click on it, the Markdown is shown again and I can't interact with the automatically-created blocks.

My workaround was to copy these blocks and paste them to get rid of the Markdown.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be super nice to press a button in the Markdown block to have the generated blocks persisted and forget about the Markdown.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Copying and pasting.

[karmatosed]

I like this idea and think anything that improves importing is a good thing to think about implementing. Let me flag this as an enhancement for now and see about explorations there, I think having it explored in design makes sense for the flow, so let's get that label on this too.

[Soean]

The Markdown block is only available on wordpress.com and the Jetpack plugin. It's not a core block.

[phpbits]

Hmm, this is weird. I thought Markdowns were supported on paste?

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/blob/master/packages/blocks/src/api/raw-handling/readme.md

[alshakero]

Huh! This is awesome! I tried it but it didn't work because apparently when you copy from VS Code the code isn't copied as plain text hence it won't trigger the Markdown transform.