Copy an Org Mode region as Markdown

Without doubt, Markdown is the standard for many plain-text input fields on the web. And even though I'd prefer it would be Org Mode (or Orgdown ), I cannot escape this reality. Well, at least not entirely. Like perhaps many others who are trapped inside Emacs, I write (especially longer) texts in Org Mode and export them to Markdown afterwards. This works more or less well. There are (to my…