Non-greedy regexp matching too much in pandoc-generated markdown file

Non-greedy regexp matching too much in pandoc-generated markdown file

[jamiereecebowman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w]

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I posted this earlier on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55710275/non-greedy-regexp-matching-too-much-in-pandoc-generated-markdown-file

If anyone could help, that'd be much appreciated.

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Re: Non-greedy regexp matching too much in pandoc-generated markdown file

[John MacFarlane]

jamiereecebowman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes:

> I want to run a regexp find and replace on the
> markdown file which effectively 'accepts' insertions
> and deletions but leaves the comment spans. (This is
> so when I convert back to .docx, I have a clean .docx
> file with comments only.)

You'd be better off using a pandoc filter for this.
See the lua-filters documentation:
https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html
Something like (untested)

-- accept.lua
function Span(el)
  if el.classes:includes("deletion") then
    return {}
  end
  if el.classes:includes("insertion") then
    return el.content
  end
end

Then you can just do

    pandoc --lua-filter accept.lua input.md -o output.md