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Convert rich text on the clipboard to Markdown
if encoded=`osascript -e 'the clipboard as «class HTML»'` 2>/dev/null; then echo $encoded | perl -ne 'print chr foreach unpack("C*",pack("H*",substr($_,11,-3)))' | pandoc --no-wrap -f HTML -t markdown; else; pbpaste; fi
# for my .vimrc:
# command PasteMarkdown :read !if encoded=`osascript -e 'the clipboard as «class HTML»'` 2>/dev/null; then echo $encoded | perl -ne 'print chr foreach unpack("C*",pack("H*",substr($_,11,-3)))' | pandoc --no-wrap -f HTML -t markdown; else; pbpaste; fi
# nnoremap ,pmd :PasteMarkdown<CR>
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