markdown for email: nuff'said ?
Until now, me as a reader of incomming messages, prefer text only
view.
Because so few people are using HTML in a useful way.
which is why mail mate's use of markdown is great.
If you are mainly a text email guy you just read the markdown - there
is
no special formatting, lists looks like lists written in text etc.
When it comes to composing a message I prefer a markdowneditor,
which
standard mode is "show the generated html view" while editing.
My eyes just don't like to see the syntax of markdown.
Yes ? I have show html view too so I can see both text and html
But I'm talking of the compose process.
When I use markdown, I like my editor to behave like e.g. the App
Notes on macOS:
I write "* foo"ENTER
And the app "thinks" I like to write a list point and renders it like
a html element "ul".
That's my favorite behaviour. It get the best of both worlds:
I don't need graphical buttons to declare something as a list point. I
just write "* foo".
But I get the nice rendering of HTML.
When I understand it correctly, that is not possible in MM.
Please correct me, if neccessary.
no, and I personally like it that way as I like editing in text mode
over a visual one.
Good thing is that if you know of an editor that can do what you are
looking for then mailmate most likely can use it to edit/create the mail
for you :)
Summarized:
I would love to have a text editor for mail composing, which offers
formatting for plain text tasks.
Example:
Format a numbered list.
Before formatting:
* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce
vehicula orci vitae
* Felis congue porta. Maecenas finibus fermentum erat. Aenean
pulvinar
consequat arcu
After formatting:
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce
vehicula orci vitae
2. Felis congue porta. Maecenas finibus fermentum erat. Aenean
pulvinar consequat arcu
But I have never heard that such a mail compose plain text editor
exist.
That sounds like something you can do with osx text services.
Ever tried out
https://brettterpstra.com/projects/markdown-service-tools/#listsfixnumberedlist
?
His markdown services might help you out.
But I do not talk about markdown.
I like to send a plain text message and than a receiver who uses a
plain text mail client (which cannot view html or markdown) should see
the text in the way I posted it above. Nicely formatted plain text.
Andreas
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