html -> markdown -> html

[fredcallaway]

I wanted to use this plugin to write emails with sublime text. But when I activate GhostText within a gmail compose box, I get html in Sublime, and I don't want to write my emails in html.

Would it be feasible to integrate GhostText with pandoc? Necessary additions would be

• new setting "use_pandoc" defaults to false
• detect if source is html
• add pandoc -f html -t markdown filter between chrome and sublime
• add pandoc -f markdown -t html filter between sublime and chrome

pandoc is very fast, so I don't think speed is a major concern here. If you're interested in this addition, I can implement it and make a pull request. (If you can tell me where the filters should go, that would be very helpful)

[Cacodaimon]

It might be possible, but I would try to build a more general way with custom filters.

But I would need some time finding a way implementing custom filters.

[fregante]

We might want to keep this in the browser part so it can be easily shared.

Edit: maybe not for size reasons

[gruns]

Any progress on this front? Or best practices to use GhostText to compose emails
in Gmail?

[gruns]

Bump -- Gmail compose windows remain ungainly HTML. Any progress on this
front?

[subnut]

Select Plain text mode in gmail. Problem solved!

https://useplaintext.email/#gmail-web

[albert-ying]

Select Plain text mode in gmail. Problem solved!

https://useplaintext.email/#gmail-web

@subnut Hmmm, I tried to set my Gmail to plain text mode. The decorative elements are removed. However, it still sorts of HTML formatted and requires the <div> tag to start a new line.