Display markdown emails via markdown-mode

Display markdown emails via markdown-mode

[Husain Alshehhi]

Hi all,

I have emails with Content-Type: text/markdown and I would like to view
such emails in markdown mode somehow. Currently, when I receive such
email, gnus/message-mode knows to identify the mime, but it displays the
email the same way it displays text/plain.

Ideally, I would like gnus/message-mode to process such emails the same
way it processes html: identify the Content-Type, and send it to
eww. For markdown, it would be through markdown-mode's live-preview,
which displays markdown buffers in eww. Worse case scenario, I can
convert markdown to html and open it via eww.

Context:

At work, there are many tools that generate all sorts of updates. I have
a process that collect these updates for me and store it as messages in
maildir format. I use markdown for the message Content-Type, and use
gnus to read these messages.

Re: Display markdown emails via markdown-mode

[Adam Sjøgren]

Husain writes:

> I have emails with Content-Type: text/markdown and I would like to view
> such emails in markdown mode somehow.

If you have markdown-mode installed, try this:

    ; Display text/markdown:
    (require 'markdown-mode)
    (defun mm-display-markdown (handle)
      (mm-display-inline-fontify handle 'markdown-mode))
    (add-to-list 'mm-inline-media-tests '("text/markdown" mm-display-markdown identity))

It's not perfect (I see some line-break problems at least), but it's a
start.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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 "Though I have not tested it, I trust it works."           Adam Sjøgren
                                                       asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: Display markdown emails via markdown-mode

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:35:33 -0600, "Husain Alshehhi" <husain@alshehhi.io> said:

    Husain> Hi all,
    Husain> I have emails with Content-Type: text/markdown and I would like to view
    Husain> such emails in markdown mode somehow. Currently, when I receive such
    Husain> email, gnus/message-mode knows to identify the mime, but it displays the
    Husain> email the same way it displays text/plain.

    Husain> Ideally, I would like gnus/message-mode to process such emails the same
    Husain> way it processes html: identify the Content-Type, and send it to
    Husain> eww. For markdown, it would be through markdown-mode's live-preview,
    Husain> which displays markdown buffers in eww. Worse case scenario, I can
    Husain> convert markdown to html and open it via eww.

I think this is possible, I suggest you check (info "(emacs-mime) Display Customization")

Robert
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