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Markdown in you emails

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:04 am
by Germanunkol
I made the mistake of following Roland_Yonaba on Github, now I get notified each time he stars a repository, so I spend way too much time browsing other people's code. :D

... that's how I ended up finding Markdown-here.
It's a plugin for many browsers and email clients, which allows you to write your mails in markdown and then render them. That's incredible cool. What's even better though is that it allows you to render code in your emails as well, with proper syntax highlighting!
This means you can write Lua code in your emails with a nice style of your choice:

Example

Re: Markdown in you emails

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:11 am
by Plu
That's pretty awesome, actually :D I'm going to use that.

Re: Markdown in you emails

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:28 pm
by Roland_Yonaba
Germanunkol wrote:I made the mistake of following Roland_Yonaba on Github, now I get notified each time he stars a repository, so I spend way too much time browsing other people's code. :D
:megagrin:

Re: Markdown in you emails

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:52 pm
by ejmr
Germanunkol wrote:I made the mistake of following Roland_Yonaba on Github, now I get notified each time he stars a repository, so I spend way too much time browsing other people's code. :D
I know how you feel. I’ve been doing it for months and now I have bookmarks for twenty-seven million GitHub projects.
Germanunkol wrote:…that's how I ended up finding Markdown-here.
It's a plugin for many browsers and email clients, which allows you to write your mails in markdown and then render them.
I have been using ‘Markdown Here’ for a long time and love it because I love Markdown for everything. Outside of emails I use Pandoc for converting Markdown into a multitude of formats, which I've found to be very useful for writing documentation.

Re: Markdown in you emails

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:42 pm
by Germanunkol
ejmr wrote: Outside of emails I use Pandoc for converting Markdown into a multitude of formats, which I've found to be very useful for writing documentation.
Nice! This image is quite impressive:
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/diagram.png