[MlMt] Replacing the Markdown processor

Kee Hinckley kee+freron at hinckley.com
Tue Dec 3 07:38:50 EST 2013


On 3 Dec 2013, at 4:57, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>> in /Users/nazgul/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Scripts should 
>> have replaced the Markdown pre-processor, but that didn't seem to 
>> work, nor did editing the same file in the MailMate app itself. In 
>> fact, I finally had to replace the ``sundown`` program with a shell 
>> script.
>
> You are of course welcome to hack whatever you want, but I do not 
> officially support replacing the Markdown converter. The included 
> converter includes various changes to behave nicely when a by-product 
> is the plain text body part in the generated email.

Can you describe those briefly? Or point me at an example? I'd love to 
wrap MultiMarkdown in a way would make it more compatible.

>> What's particularly odd though, is that MailMate is putting a UID in 
>> the output that is sent to the Markdown pre-processor, and it's 
>> including it just before the last line. So I ended up having the 
>> following script.
>
> This is a hack to be able to locate the position of the caret in the 
> HTML generated (for auto-scrolling). It currently does not work well 
> though (if at all).

Hah. That explains why it kept moving around!
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