Re: plain-text markdown handler for Gnus

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:21:58 -0400 Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote: 

ES> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> [general mm-uu handler omitted]
>> 
>> This is very nice but I think it's also nice to use the `markdown'
>> processor directly (as markdown-mode does).  It will handle more of the
>> Markdown markup and generates HTML which we can then inline.

ES> Oh, I thought the goal was a message fontification tool, but it sounds
ES> like you're proposing a tool for composing HTML email.

I mean that if we detect Markdown in the text message, we can pick that
up, pipe it through `markdown', take the resulting HTML, and splice that
into the text as fontified HTML.  No composition support is implied, and
the message should be plain text only.

Ted