Kerri, Sam, Wow. This is embarrassing. So… now it just magically _works._ I'm not sure what changed. Last time I tried my old version of the script, and a fresh download from Aaron's account, `html2text/html2text.py <https://github.com/html2text/html2text.py>` and both resulted in an error message I couldn't interpret. When I went back to regenerate the error to post here, I realized I deleted all copies of the old script. So I downloaded a fresh copy and… it just worked. Thanks for being the trigger that made that happen!
As for everyone else, TJ & Patrick, thank you. My comments about wanting this to be self-contained is mostly because I already have a web dev environment set up under my Mac, and I don't want lots of things set up where I'm not sure what's going on down there, both so it doesn't interfere with what's part of my work environment, and so I know all the things that are going on down there. I'm just barely in the know about what I've set up with mamp, homebrew, npm, and a few more tools. Unix-y structures are so obtuse to me. I've even taken a Linux Foundation course, and "the why" of where things are where they are and why they're named what they're named is still a partial mystery to me. And the answers of the internet are usually written in experienced developer speak. I am inexperienced barely developer (actually I'm an experienced UX guy who can code front-end and knows a minute amount of js, python and php). If anyone has a good source that approaches the explanations from this angle, please pass them along. Sorry to vent. Thanks again, ~b On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 9:06:27 AM UTC-4, Kerri Hicks wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Sam Hathaway <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> html2text.py from https://github.com/html2text/html2text.py works fine >> for me in BBEdit 11.5.1 on MacOS 10.10.5. I clicked “Download ZIP” on the >> GitHub page, unzipped the download, and dragged the resulting html2text.py >> file into my Text Filters folder. >> > > This worked for me, as well. After I put the html2text.py file (that's > really all you need from the zip package) into my Application Support -> > BBEdit -> Text Filters folder (my Application Support folder is in Dropbox, > but some folks have it in Library, instead), I opened an HTML document in > BBEdit, and then chose Text -> Apply Text Filter -> html2txt. It turned the > contents of my HTML file into pretty believable Markdown. > > I did have to change the document type from HTML to Markdown (in the bar > at the bottom of the editor window) to get the syntax coloring and Preview > in BBEdit to display properly. > > Hope this helps, > --Kerri > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
