On Sun 24, Jan'10 at 1:25 AM -0500, John Gruber wrote:
It has never occurred to me that Markdown would be useful in the context of an email client. What's the idea, that I'd compose in Markdown and the message would be sent as HTML?
That kind of makes sense. Markdown preview of incoming mails might be interesting too.
However, here's a different idea. Since this is supposedly a plain-text client, why not ?o syntax highlighting of markdown content. It's still plain text, but you get a little bit of color to break things up. You could easily do things like make *emphasized* words bold, but still plain text (with the *'s still displayed too). Bold and maybe color headers, colorize links, etc. Could work real nice.
Actually, it does. Haha. One only has to look at BBEdit/Textmate to see what it looks like. I actually have a couple of regex coloring rules in mutt to make *emphasized* words bold. It's an ideal compromise in my mind between plain text (and copyable) and over-styled HTML mails.
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