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Drop this in your .zshrc/.bashrc, copy some Markdown to the clipboard, and run `mkemail`. Paste the HTML wherever you want. Requires `pandoc` installed (brew install pandoc).
# Take a Markdown email from the clipboard or a file and turn it into HTML
function mkemail() {
# Either read from clipboard (default) or read from a file
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
content=`pbpaste`
echo "Reading from clipboard"
else
content=`cat $1`
echo "Reading from file '$1'"
fi
# Extract the subject from the first line
subject=$(echo $content | head -n 1 | grep 'Subject:')
# If there was no subject, convert all of the content
# Otherwise, strip off the Subject and the blank line that follows
if [[ -z $subject ]]; then
echo $content | pandoc -f markdown-smart -t html-smart --wrap=none | sed -e 's/<pre><code>/<pre>/g' -e 's/<\/pre><\/code>/<\/pre>/g' | pbcopy
echo "HTML copied to clipboard"
else
echo $content | tail -n +2 | pandoc -f markdown-smart -t html-smart --wrap=none | sed -e 's/<pre><code>/<pre>/g' -e 's/<\/code><\/pre>/<\/pre>/g' | pbcopy
echo "Skipped first 2 lines"
echo "HTML copied to clipboard"
echo $subject
fi
}
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