[MlMt] Future of Markdown syntax in Mailmate

[Andreas Sahlbach]

> Can you suggest a possible replacement? I assume that it's largely a 
> case of adjusting to a different API.

I would prefer to deal with this in an outcome oriented way, not from a 
implementation perspective. Ask the users what they want, then solve 
their problems. I can only speak for myself, the current syntax is too 
restricted and too basic.
I am missing nested lists, nicely rendered code snippets etc. But that's 
only my opinion and based on my view of existing markdown solutions.

Besides that, for a quick fix, there are several forks from the 
deprecated repository. Maybe one of them is compatible and improves the 
current situation already? (https://github.com/apiaryio/sundown, 
https://github.com/hoedown/hoedown)

On a midterm base it would be a cool feature to open up a plug-in 
interface so that the community can improve the situation by itself.

Ciao,

Andreas

On 10 Aug 2020, at 13:12, Charlie Clark wrote:

> On 10 Aug 2020, at 12:44, Andreas Sahlbach wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to ask (again), what are the plans of the mark down 
>> syntax in Mailmate? AFAIK the current markdown is based 
>> on [Sundown](<https://github.com/vmg/sundown> ), which is deprecated 
>> since 2012 without any fixes or active development.
>>
>> Since 2012 there are a lot of improvements in the Markdown language 
>> and features and I saw several questions about supporting more 
>> markdown features in the mailing list. I myself would love to see 
>> github flavored markdown or even simple things like nested lists.
>>
>> Are there any plans in doing improvements in this sector in Mailmate? 
>> Or opening up the interface so that the community can write its own 
>> plugins to enhance Mailmate?
>>
>> I would love to continue to use Mailmate, since there are a lot of 
>> features that I love. But the lack of progress in this sector bugs me 
>> more and more, so I wrote this mail.
>
> Can you suggest a possible replacement? I assume that it's largely a 
> case of adjusting to a different API.
>
> Charlie
>
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