Copies the contents of the general string pasteboard on Mac OSX over to HTML for easy pasting into Google Docs

pasteboardAsHtml.swift

// Utility to help with converting markdown on the clipboard into html on the
// clipboard for easy pasting of formatted text into a Google Doc in Chrome.
//
// Setup:
//   - brew install pandoc
//   - alias md2gd='pbpaste | pandoc -f markdown+smart -t html | pbcopy; swift pasteboardAsHtml.swift; echo "Copied to clipboard";'
// 
// Usage:
//   - <Copy some markdown text>
//   - md2gd
//   - <Paste the formatted text into a Google Doc in Chrome>

import Cocoa
let pb = NSPasteboard.general

if let string = pb.string(forType: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.string) {
  pb.declareTypes([NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.html], owner: nil)
  pb.setString(string, forType: NSPasteboard.PasteboardType.html)
} else {
  print("Could not read string data from pasteboard")
  exit(1)
}