diff --git a/copyparty/broker_mpw.py b/copyparty/broker_mpw.py
index b4b540d8..815ca50a 100644
--- a/copyparty/broker_mpw.py
+++ b/copyparty/broker_mpw.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class MpWorker(object):
                 if PY2:
                     sck = pickle.loads(sck)  # nosec
 
-                self.log(str(addr), "-" * 4 + "C-qpop")
+                self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 4 + "C-qpop")
                 self.httpsrv.accept(sck, addr)
 
                 with self.mutex:
diff --git a/copyparty/broker_thr.py b/copyparty/broker_thr.py
index 189aaffd..855387bf 100644
--- a/copyparty/broker_thr.py
+++ b/copyparty/broker_thr.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class BrokerThr(object):
     def put(self, want_retval, dest, *args):
         if dest == "httpconn":
             sck, addr = args
-            self.log(str(addr), "-" * 4 + "C-qpop")
+            self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 4 + "C-qpop")
             self.httpsrv.accept(sck, addr)
 
         else:
diff --git a/copyparty/httpcli.py b/copyparty/httpcli.py
index cf2d52f1..015d65e2 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpcli.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpcli.py
@@ -708,7 +708,14 @@ class HttpCli(object):
 
     def tx_md(self, fs_path):
         logmsg = "{:4} {} ".format("", self.req)
-        html_path = os.path.join(E.mod, "web/md.html")
+        if "edit" in self.uparam:
+            html_path = "web/mde.html"
+            template = self.conn.tpl_mde
+        else:
+            html_path = "web/md.html"
+            template = self.conn.tpl_md
+
+        html_path = os.path.join(E.mod, html_path)
 
         st = os.stat(fsenc(fs_path))
         sz_md = st.st_size
@@ -726,7 +733,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             "title": html_escape(self.vpath, quote=False),
             "md": "",
         }
-        sz_html = len(self.conn.tpl_md.render(**targs).encode("utf-8"))
+        sz_html = len(template.render(**targs).encode("utf-8"))
         self.send_headers(sz_html + sz_md, status)
 
         logmsg += str(status)
@@ -738,7 +745,7 @@ class HttpCli(object):
             md = f.read()
 
         targs["md"] = md.decode("utf-8", "replace")
-        html = self.conn.tpl_md.render(**targs).encode("utf-8")
+        html = template.render(**targs).encode("utf-8")
         try:
             self.s.sendall(html)
         except:
diff --git a/copyparty/httpconn.py b/copyparty/httpconn.py
index e1bda616..bca54b8f 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpconn.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpconn.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ class HttpConn(object):
         self.tpl_browser = env.get_template("browser.html")
         self.tpl_msg = env.get_template("msg.html")
         self.tpl_md = env.get_template("md.html")
+        self.tpl_mde = env.get_template("mde.html")
 
     def respath(self, res_name):
         return os.path.join(E.mod, "web", res_name)
diff --git a/copyparty/httpsrv.py b/copyparty/httpsrv.py
index eb36374d..7182a7b9 100644
--- a/copyparty/httpsrv.py
+++ b/copyparty/httpsrv.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class HttpSrv(object):
 
     def accept(self, sck, addr):
         """takes an incoming tcp connection and creates a thread to handle it"""
-        self.log(str(addr), "-" * 5 + "C-cthr")
+        self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 5 + "C-cthr")
         thr = threading.Thread(target=self.thr_client, args=(sck, addr))
         thr.daemon = True
         thr.start()
@@ -66,16 +66,18 @@ class HttpSrv(object):
                 thr.start()
 
         try:
-            self.log(str(addr), "-" * 6 + "C-crun")
+            self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 6 + "C-crun")
             cli.run()
 
         finally:
-            self.log(str(addr), "-" * 7 + "C-done")
+            self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 7 + "C-done")
             try:
                 sck.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
                 sck.close()
             except (OSError, socket.error) as ex:
-                self.log(str(addr), "shut_rdwr err:\n  {}\n  {}".format(repr(sck), ex))
+                self.log(
+                    "%s %s" % addr, "shut_rdwr err:\n  {}\n  {}".format(repr(sck), ex),
+                )
                 if ex.errno not in [10038, 107, 57, 9]:
                     # 10038 No longer considered a socket
                     #   107 Transport endpoint not connected
diff --git a/copyparty/tcpsrv.py b/copyparty/tcpsrv.py
index d346ea68..29e5f349 100644
--- a/copyparty/tcpsrv.py
+++ b/copyparty/tcpsrv.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ class TcpSrv(object):
 
             self.log("tcpsrv", "-" * 2 + "C-acc1")
             sck, addr = self.srv.accept()
-            self.log(str(addr), "-" * 3 + "C-acc2")
+            self.log("%s %s" % addr, "-" * 3 + "C-acc2")
             self.num_clients.add()
             self.hub.broker.put(False, "httpconn", sck, addr)
 
diff --git a/copyparty/web/md.html b/copyparty/web/md.html
index 9cbb39fa..d9fb97bf 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/md.html
+++ b/copyparty/web/md.html
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 		<div id="mn"></div>
 		<div id="mh">
 			<a id="lightswitch" href="#">dark</a>
-			there will soon be more buttons on this row so it looks less dumb
+			<a id="edit" href="?edit">edit</a>
 		</div>
 		<div id="ml">
 			<div style="text-align:center;margin:5em 0">
diff --git a/copyparty/web/md.js b/copyparty/web/md.js
index 56e894dd..0c4ae026 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/md.js
+++ b/copyparty/web/md.js
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ var dom_md = document.getElementById('mt');
 // add toolbar buttons
 (function () {
     var n = document.location + '';
-    n = n.substr(n.indexOf('//') + 2).split('/');
+    n = n.substr(n.indexOf('//') + 2).split('?')[0].split('/');
     n[0] = 'top';
+    var loc = [];
     var nav = [];
-    var url = '/';
     for (var a = 0; a < n.length; a++) {
         if (a > 0)
-            url += n[a] + '/';
+            loc.push(n[a]);
 
-        nav.push('<a href="' + url + '">' + n[a] + '</a>');
+        nav.push('<a href="/' + loc.join('/') + '">' + n[a] + '</a>');
     }
     dom_nav.innerHTML = nav.join('');
 })();
diff --git a/copyparty/web/mde.css b/copyparty/web/mde.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c69c24af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/copyparty/web/mde.css
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+/* fontawesome is 2big */
+.fa { font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1em; margin: -3em; position: relative; left: -.05em; font-style: normal }
+.fa-bold:before { content: 'B'; font-weight: bold }
+.fa-italic:before { content: 'I'; font-style: italic }
+.fa-strikethrough:before { content: ' S '; text-decoration: line-through }
+.fa-header:before { content: 'H'; font-weight: bold; font-family: serif; top: -.2em; left: .5em }
+.fa-quote-left:before { content: '❝'; font-family: serif; top: -.5em }
+.fa-list-ul:before { content: '•' }
+.fa-list-ol:before { content: '①' }
+.fa-link:before { content: '🔗'; font-size: .8em }
+.fa-image:before { content: '🎨' }
+.fa-eye:before { content: '👀'; font-size: .9em }
+.fa-columns:before { content: '◫' }
+.fa-arrows-alt:before { content: '⛶' }
+.fa-undo:before { content: '⟲' }
+.fa-redo:before { content: '⟳' }
+.fa-question-circle:before { content: '?' }
+.fa-code:before { content: '‹/›'; font-size: .8em; }
+.fa-eraser:before { content: '⁋' }
+.fa-table:before { content: '⊞' }
+.fa-minus:before { content: '−' }
+
+/*
+https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref
+http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html
+https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/miscellaneous_symbols_and_pictographs/list.htm
+↶ ↷ 💾 🗙 
+*/
+
+button { border: 1px solid #999 !important; }
+
+html, body {
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+    min-height: 100%;
+    font-family: sans-serif;
+}
+#mn {
+    font-weight: normal;
+    margin: 1.3em 0 .7em 1em;
+    font-size: 1.4em;
+}
+#mn a {
+    color: #444;
+    margin: 0 0 0 -.2em;
+    padding: 0 0 0 .4em;
+    text-decoration: none;
+}
+#mn a:first-child {
+    padding-left: .5em;
+}
+#mn a:last-child {
+    padding-right: .5em;
+}
+#mn a:not(:last-child):after {
+    content: '';
+    width: 1.05em;
+    height: 1.05em;
+    margin: -.2em .3em -.2em -.4em;
+    display: inline-block;
+    border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
+    border-width: .05em .05em 0 0;
+    transform: rotate(45deg);
+}
+#mn a:hover {
+    color: #000;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+}
+    
+*[data-ln]:before {
+	content: attr(data-ln);
+	font-size: .8em;
+	margin: 0 .4em;
+	color: #f0c;
+}
diff --git a/copyparty/web/mde.html b/copyparty/web/mde.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93c01647
--- /dev/null
+++ b/copyparty/web/mde.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
+	<meta charset="utf-8">
+	<title>📝🎉 {{ title }}</title>
+	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
+	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.7">
+	<link href="/.cpr/mde.css" rel="stylesheet">
+	<link href="/.cpr/deps/easymde.css" rel="stylesheet">
+</head>
+<body>
+	<div id="mw">
+		<div id="mn"></div>
+		<div id="ml">
+			<div style="text-align:center;margin:5em 0">
+				<div style="font-size:2em;margin:1em 0">Loading</div>
+				if you're still reading this, check that javascript is allowed
+			</div>
+		</div>
+		<div id="m">
+			<textarea id="mt" style="display:none">{{ md }}</textarea>
+		</div>
+	</div>
+	<script>
+
+var link_md_as_html = false;  // TODO (does nothing)
+
+	</script>
+	<script src="/.cpr/deps/easymde.full.js"></script>
+	<script src="/.cpr/mde.js"></script>
+</body></html>
diff --git a/copyparty/web/mde.js b/copyparty/web/mde.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a0a108c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/copyparty/web/mde.js
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+var dom_wrap = document.getElementById('mw');
+var dom_nav = document.getElementById('mn');
+var dom_doc = document.getElementById('m');
+var dom_md = document.getElementById('mt');
+
+(function () {
+    var n = document.location + '';
+    n = n.substr(n.indexOf('//') + 2).split('?')[0].split('/');
+    n[0] = 'top';
+    var loc = [];
+    var nav = [];
+    for (var a = 0; a < n.length; a++) {
+        if (a > 0)
+            loc.push(n[a]);
+
+        nav.push('<a href="/' + loc.join('/') + '">' + n[a] + '</a>');
+    }
+    dom_nav.innerHTML = nav.join('');
+})();
+
+(function () {
+    var mde = new EasyMDE({
+        autoDownloadFontAwesome: false,
+        autofocus: true,
+        insertTexts: ["[](", ")"],
+        renderingConfig: {
+            markedOptions: {
+                breaks: true,
+                gfm: true
+            }
+        },
+        spellChecker: false,
+        tabSize: 4,
+        showIcons: ['strikethrough', 'code', 'table', 'undo', 'redo', 'heading', 'clean-block', 'horizontal-rule']
+    });
+    var loader = document.getElementById('ml');
+    loader.parentNode.removeChild(loader);
+})();
+
+zsetTimeout(function () { window.location.reload(true); }, 1000);
diff --git a/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile b/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
index 571156f7..020b67ba 100644
--- a/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/scripts/deps-docker/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ ENV     ver_asmcrypto=2821dd1dedd1196c378f5854037dda5c869313f3 \
         ver_markdownit=10.0.0 \
         ver_showdown=1.9.1 \
         ver_marked=1.0.0 \
-        ver_ogvjs=1.6.1
+        ver_ogvjs=1.6.1 \
+        ver_mde=2.10.1
 
 
 # download
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ RUN     apk add make g++ git bash npm patch wget tar pigz brotli gzip unzip \
         && wget https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/releases/download/$ver_ogvjs/ogvjs-$ver_ogvjs.zip -O ogvjs.zip \
         && wget https://github.com/asmcrypto/asmcrypto.js/archive/$ver_asmcrypto.tar.gz -O asmcrypto.tgz \
         && wget https://github.com/markedjs/marked/archive/v$ver_marked.tar.gz -O marked.tgz \
+        && wget https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/archive/$ver_mde.tar.gz -O mde.tgz \
         && unzip ogvjs.zip \
         && (tar -xf asmcrypto.tgz \
             && cd asmcrypto.js-$ver_asmcrypto \
@@ -20,7 +22,13 @@ RUN     apk add make g++ git bash npm patch wget tar pigz brotli gzip unzip \
             && cd marked-$ver_marked \
             && npm install \
             && npm i grunt uglify-js -g ) \
+        && (tar -xf mde.tgz \
+            && cd easy-markdown-editor* \
+            && npm install \
+            && npm i gulp-cli -g ) \
         && mkdir /z/dist
+#        && wget https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases/download/5.0.11/fontawesome-free-5.0.11.zip -O fontawesome.zip \
+#        && unzip fontawesome.zip \
 
 
 # uncomment if you wanna test the abandoned markdown converters
@@ -74,10 +82,26 @@ RUN     cd marked-$ver_marked \
         && patch -p1 < /z/marked.patch \
         && npm run build \
         && cp -pv marked.min.js /z/dist/marked.js \
-        && cp -pv lib/marked.js /z/dist/marked.full.js
+        && cp -pv lib/marked.js /z/dist/marked.full.js \
+        && mkdir -p /z/nodepkgs \
+        && ln -s $(pwd) /z/nodepkgs/marked
 #        && npm run test \
 
 
+# build easymde (TODO man this thing is big)
+RUN     cd easy-markdown-editor-$ver_mde \
+        && sed -ri 's`https://registry.npmjs.org/marked/-/marked-0.8.2.tgz`file:/z/nodepkgs/marked`' package-lock.json \
+        && sed -ri 's`("marked": ")[^"]+`\1file:/z/nodepkgs/marked`' ./package.json \
+        && npm install \
+        && gulp \
+        && cp -pv dist/easymde.min.css /z/dist/easymde.css \
+        && cp -pv dist/easymde.min.js /z/dist/easymde.js \
+        && sed -ri '/pipe.terser/d; /cleanCSS/d' gulpfile.js \
+        && gulp \
+        && cp -pv dist/easymde.min.css /z/dist/easymde.full.css \
+        && cp -pv dist/easymde.min.js /z/dist/easymde.full.js
+
+
 # build showdown (abandoned; disabled by default)
 COPY    showdown.patch /z/
 RUN     [ $build_abandoned ] || exit 0; \
@@ -126,6 +150,9 @@ COPY    zopfli.makefile /z/dist/Makefile
 RUN     cd /z/dist \
         && make -j$(nproc) \
         && rm Makefile
+#        && cp -pv "$(find /z/fontawesome-fre* -name fa-regular-400.woff | head -n 1)" fontawesome.woff
+#        && cp -pv "$(find /z/fontawesome-fre* -name fontawesome.min.css | head -n 1)" fontawesome.css \
+#        && sed -ri 's`@font-face.*``' fontawesome.css \
 
 
 # showdown: abandoned due to code-blocks in lists failing
@@ -156,5 +183,5 @@ RUN     cd /z/dist \
 # f=../../copyparty/web/deps/marked.js.gz; (cd ~ed/src/ && diff -NarU1 marked-1.0.0-orig/ marked-1.0.0-edit/) >marked.patch; make && printf '%d ' $(wc -c <$f) $(gzip -d <$f | wc -c); echo
 
 
-# d=/home/ed/dev/copyparty/scripts/deps-docker/; scp Dockerfile marked-ln.patch root@$bip:$d && ssh root@$bip "cd $d && make" && ssh root@$bip 'tar -cC /home/ed/dev/copyparty/copyparty/web deps' | (cd ../../copyparty/web/; cat > the.tgz; tar -xvf the.tgz)
+# d=/home/ed/dev/copyparty/scripts/deps-docker/; tar -cf ../x . && ssh root@$bip "cd $d && tar -xv >&2 && make >&2 && tar -cC ../../copyparty/web deps" <../x | (cd ../../copyparty/web/; cat > the.tgz; tar -xvf the.tgz)
 # gzip -dkf ../dev/copyparty/copyparty/web/deps/deps/marked.full.js.gz && diff -NarU2 ../dev/copyparty/copyparty/web/deps/{,deps/}marked.full.js