[MlMt] Markdown compose setting

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 15 May 2013, at 23:16, Gustavo Daniel Villarreal wrote:

> What is the mechanism that decides the setting for Markdown/No 
> markdown on a reply/forward message? New messages always have 
> Markdown. I'm finding that I'm constantly having to choose Markdown, 
> as I write mostly markdown messages. Could there be a setting to make 
> this always Markdown or more clearly show when markdown is 
> automatically selected?

It is a tricky problem to determine whether or not Markdown can be 
enabled for a reply. The replied text might contain syntax which is 
interpreted to be Markdown syntax without the original writer intending 
it to be so.

MailMate handles it by doing a conversion of the quoted text to HTML as 
if it was Markdown text. If any non-trivial HTML is in the resulting 
HTML then Markdown is disabled, because it indicates non-intended use of 
Markdown. This is heuristic and it might be a bit too conservative as it 
is now. For examples, replies to this mailing list (to plain text 
messages) are always non-Markdown by default. This is because the footer 
results in both a horizontal ruler and some links in HTML (this could be 
avoided if I had implemented automatic stripping of footers, but that is 
a different story).

-- 
Benny