Markdown Sugar

Thanks to Ian Beck!

Screenshot huge: 1,4MB!

Download on Github

Wiki

Issues

Nah, never mind, I solved it. I may share the sugar soon.

For future reference, in these cases it’s actually easiest to use the Syntax Tool mentioned on the wiki: http://wiki.macrabbit.com/index/Syntaxes/. The next preview will lose the plists to prevent any further confusion

Okay, thanks!

Here’s a litte screenshot of a sugared .markdown file: link

David - 03 November 2008 03:37 PM

Hi there!
Still not working:

<!-- BLOCKQUOTE -->
<zone name="comment.block.sql">
    <expression>([>]{1,1}).*$([\n]{2})?</expression>
</zone> 

If you see, why a multi line blockquote doesn’t work, please let me know.

> some multiline
text 

Only the first line gets colored.

Regexen are only applied by lines, all surrounding lines are ignored in all situations. You’ll have to hack something up with a begin and end clause where the end clause is something *without* a blockquote marking … or something. I don’t really know how you’re going to get around that one.

Okay, I finally know how to do multiple line highlighting. Here’s a beta version of the sugar, still containing a few bugs: download

The version 0.8 supports:
· HTML Header
· Bold and Italic
· Lists
· Blockquotes
· Code elements
· Pre tags for code

David - 05 November 2008 12:21 PM

Okay, I finally know how to do multiple line highlighting. Here’s a beta version of the sugar, still containing a few bugs: download

The version 0.8 supports:
· HTML Header
· Bold and Italic
· Lists
· Blockquotes
· Code elements
· Pre tags for code

Could you perhaps throw a version up on GitHub? I’d like to contribute as well, there’s more syntaxes worth having, for sure!

Good work so far, this is a very useful sugar to have.

elliottcable - 05 November 2008 04:59 PM

Could you perhaps throw a version up on GitHub? I’d like to contribute as well, there’s more syntaxes worth having, for sure!

I put it up, and he cloned it:

http://github.com/dc/markdown.sugar

Thanks for doing that!

Updated to version 0.9.1 with new features. See first post.

looks like zip file download is not working… ‘page does not exist’

Nils Hendriks - 17 November 2008 10:26 PM

looks like zip file download is not working… ‘page does not exist’

You can download it from here:

http://github.com/dc/markdown.sugar

Just click the download button at the top.

now that’s strange… I corrected the link.

Regexen are only applied by lines, all surrounding lines are ignored in all situations. You’ll have to hack something up with a begin and end clause where the end clause is something *without* a blockquote marking … or something. I don’t really know how you’re going to get around that one.

Zero-width positive lookahead assertions to the rescue!

I haven’t tried to apply it to markdown blockquotes, but the below works for multi-line shell comments

philip - 28 February 2009 11:17 AM

Regexen are only applied by lines, all surrounding lines are ignored in all situations. You’ll have to hack something up with a begin and end clause where the end clause is something *without* a blockquote marking … or something. I don’t really know how you’re going to get around that one.

Zero-width positive lookahead assertions to the rescue!

I haven’t tried to apply it to markdown blockquotes, but the below works for multi-line shell comments

<zone name="comment.line.number-sign.bash">
   <starts-with>
      <expression>(#).*($)\n?</expression>
      <capture number="1" name="punctuation.definition.comment.begin" />
   </starts-with>
   <ends-with>
      <expression>^(?=[^#])</expression>
      <capture number="0" name="punctuation.definition.comment.end" />
   </ends-with>
</zone> 

That’s odd. That didn’t work, last time I tried it.

As far as I know, the Regex parser should be *entirely* unaware of the existence of other lines in any capacity whatsoever. Must be an addition by Jan in one of the recent betas?

1) If you could add “text” as an extension, that’d be great.  Gruber (who is of course the creator of Markdown) uses .text for his own markdown documents: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/index.text

2) I feel like an idiot but how the heck do I install a sugar?

3) Thanks for making this sugar. Markdown is awesome.

4) For anyone who hasn’t seen it, http://tinyurl.com/mshowdown is an as-you-type JS Markdown preview engine you can add to your own site.

5) And I made the easy-to-remember URL http://tinyurl.com/mkdndingus for the official Markdown dingus.