Toolbar to insert HTML tags while editing content

Question

This very site features a neat toolbar just over the textareas in forms, where clicking on "B", for instance, will spawn **strong text**, abstracting away the need to know Markdown.

Is there a way to do the exact same thing with, for instance, filtered HTML, or another text format based on HTML, on my Drupal site? I find that WYSIWYG editors tend to bloat the actual code and I want my users to get used to seeing HTML tags, but for the moment they can't be bothered with typing the markup in themselves.

Answer 1

After asking on #drupal on irc.freenode.org, I was looking for the BUEditor module that does just that, specifically looking at its native support for HTML tags:

Screenshot (using BBCode)

Answer 2

It looks like it may be using "Markdown" filters.

https://www.drupal.org/project/markdown

More info:

http://cms.about.com/od/drupal-modules/a/Write-Faster-In-Drupal-With-The-Markdown-Module.htm