Re: plain-text markdown handler for Gnus

[Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>
> [general mm-uu handler omitted]
>
> This is very nice but I think it's also nice to use the `markdown'
> processor directly (as markdown-mode does).  It will handle more of the
> Markdown markup and generates HTML which we can then inline.

Oh, I thought the goal was a message fontification tool, but it sounds
like you're proposing a tool for composing HTML email.

> I'm not sure--can anyone with Markdown experience comment?  This would
> be Gnus-specific because the HTML result would then be part of the
> article buffer.
>

There does exist a very similar Org-mode based tool for composing and
sending HTML email [1].  This tool converts inline Org-mode to HTML
(with a plain text multipart/alternative) inline in the message and the
results render correctly (including attached HTML images) in at least
gnus, Thunderbird and Gmail.

>
> Also it would be very useful to detect Markdown automatically based on
> some traits, like 4-space indented quotes and the other Markdown markup.
>

Maybe automatically converting indented code to the relevant text/x-lang
mime type (with a text alternative) would be simpler but achieve much of
the desired effect?

Best,

>
> Ted
>
>


Footnotes: 
[1]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mime.html

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Eric Schulte
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