On Sep 8, 11:20 am, "John W. Long" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would it be worthwhile to display a small combo box for READMEs that
> would allow a user to select the format to display it in if it cannot
> be deduced from the filename?
>
> Perhaps you also could "guess" based on the contents of the README
> file to get a good default answer? For example:
>
> def default_format
> case
> when contents =~ /h\d\. [A-z]/
> "textile"
> when contents =~ /(\S.*)\s*\n\s*[-=]+\s*$/
> "markdown"
> else
> "unknown"
> end
> end
>
> You could also tally how often users change the combo and use the most
> frequently chosen format as the default.
>
> It would make reading READMEs so much better.
+1
For efficiency, you could probably get away with checking the first
character of the file for:
= -> RDoc
# -> Markdown
h -> Textile
T.
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