Convert markdown for email

[piascikj]

It would be really cool to toggle the output to html for markdown text. I've always wanted to write my emails in markdown inside gmail.

[steelbrain]

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[danhper]

I am planning on adding this feature, but it does require quite a bit of work.
We need a markdown -> contenteditable HTML converter, as the HTML used
inside gmail is not really conventional, so a normal Markdown renderer
would not be good enough.
I will tackle this as soon as possible, but any help is very welcome!

[joseluisq]

👍

[orawalters]

👍

[lucasbento]

👍

[danhper]

The work is in progress but I did not have much recently.
If anyone wants to help, the work in progress is here.

https://github.com/tuvistavie/meditable

The plan is to have an ultra minimal AST representing
a subset of the DOM that can be expressed in markdown,
then make the conversion from/to the AST losing the less information
possible.

[zeke]

I've always wanted to write my emails in markdown inside gmail.

See http://markdown-here.com/

[danhper]

I did know about markdown-here but I did not know it also converted HTML to markdown,
I am going to see if I can use the common module, that will save me from reinventing the wheel 😄

[Zerim]

@tuvistavie Not sure if this library still being worked on... but would there be any interest in generalizing whatever you solution come up with above to work w/ any sort of transpilation steps? (i.e. ES6 in editor to ES5 in browser, etc.). I understand that in these cases two-way syncing would not be possible, but I think this would be okay as long as it could be toggled by the user.

[danhper]

While I do not have much time to work on this project recently,
I think it would be a good feature to have and would very gratefully accept PRs.