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Tansform clipboard contents from markdown to HTML
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clipboard-md-to-html.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
xclip -selection clipboard -o | pandoc --from markdown --to html | xclip -selection clipboard -target text/html
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Put this in an executable file somewhere on your path and set a keyboard shortcut to call it. Then you can copy some markdown, hit your key combo, and paste the text into many applications as richly formatted text. Useful, for example, to compose text in markdown in your favorite text editor and then paste it as formatted text into an email client or word processor.

Depends on xclip and pandoc, both readily available on most Linux distros via the standard repositories.

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Especially useful in combination with something like vim-anywhere.

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