Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 08:26:55PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 17/05/2024 18:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: > > > > https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It > > > > converts > > > > (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. > > >

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-18 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/05/2024 18:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: #!/bin/sh # [...]

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread tomas
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML > >> into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for > >> that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. > > Please don't

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Chip Smith
As for the original question I'd recommend that whom ever is having the issue with the version of Emacs in Debian being out date. I've done a custom compiled gcc-14.1.0 by hand on a fresh install of Debian Bookworm however, I can also understand that concertina people on this mailing list

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/05/2024 02:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. Please don't settle for markdown. I would love a org

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 03:25:49PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML > >> into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for > >> that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. > > Please don't

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML >> into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for >> that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. > Please don't settle for markdown. I would love a org filter! > org-mode just handles

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 12:43:49PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: > >https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts > >(relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. > > > >I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: >

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/05/2024 10:16, Karl Vogel wrote: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/ might interest you. It converts (relatively) sane HTML into Markdown. I put html2text.py into $HOME/lib and use this to call it: #!/bin/sh # I am puzzled by this wrapper. I expect that "$@" is

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 09:48:23AM -0400, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML > into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for > that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown.

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/05/2024 20:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. I am not familiar with pandoc features enough to

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-05-16, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> When this sort of subject comes up (as it does, every so often), I wonder >> why `text/markdown` isn't offered as a mime type for sending emails. > > FWIW, last time I tried to send `text/(x-)markdown` messages, Attribute quotes accurately.

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 03:47:48PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 09:28:05AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [...] > > > So, yes, I encourage you to send more of those, and if your recipients > > don't like the result, try and get them to complain to their > > MUA's

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 09:28:05AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > So, yes, I encourage you to send more of those, and if your recipients > don't like the result, try and get them to complain to their > MUA's authors (most of those MUAs are of course proprietary and are not > very ...

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> When this sort of subject comes up (as it does, every so often), I wonder > why `text/markdown` isn't offered as a mime type for sending emails. FWIW, last time I tried to send `text/(x-)markdown` messages, I discovered that many "popular" MUAs do not display those at all (they treat them as

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-15 Thread David
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 15:57 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On 15/05/2024 03:17, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > > > > Messages in

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On 15/05/2024 03:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-14 Thread eben
On 5/14/24 22:17, Max Nikulin wrote: On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks

Markup in mail messages (was: Re: OT: Top Posting)

2024-05-14 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/05/2024 02:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 08:16:20PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Messages in Markdown in the Windows world? I have never seen it. [...] The only sensible interpretation I can come up with for why these asterisks were added is that they're being placed