On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:09:20AM EDT, Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
>
[..]
>
> If you have links installed, you can do this easily with the -dump
> option. Here is a quick idea:
>
> function! HtmlToTxt()
> write
> let filename = expand('%')
> pedit %.txt
> wincmd p
> setl bufhidden=delete
> exec 'silent! 1,$!links -dump '.filename
> setl nomodified
> wincmd p
> endfunc
> nnoremap <silent> <F12> :call HtmlToTxt()<CR>
>
> E.g., if you have the following in a file:
>
> <html>
> <table border="1">
> <tr>
> <th>Number</th><th>Description</th>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>1</td><td>One</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>2</td><td>Two</td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td>3</td><td>Three</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </html>
>
> and press <F12>, you get the below in the preview window:
>
> +----------------------+
> | Number | Description |
> |--------+-------------|
> | 1 | One |
> |--------+-------------|
> | 2 | Two |
> |--------+-------------|
> | 3 | Three |
> +----------------------+
>
> To make your HTML table editing easier, you can have macros to insert new
> rows and columns.
>
Thanks, Hari,
This is very nice indeed. Took me about two minutes to set it up and run
the test and would appear to meet my requirements: I can get the
text-only rendering - without box characters - for a quick preview in
vim via a simple keyboard action and I could likely set up some other
macro/function that would launch Elinks or a graphical web browser for
different levels of rendering of my documents.
I need to dig into vim's function capabilities, see if I can have the
preview window full screen-height - or use normal vertical split instead
of the preview window - so I can have the html source and the basic
text-mode rendering thereof side-by-side.
The dilemma of course is choosing which markup language I should choose
(html, groff, latex, ..). I'm sure I could start one of those
never-ending threads if I asked something quite vague such as "which
markup language is the best choice for the documenting dilettante".. or
something to that effect. :-)
Personally the main issue I have with html is that I find its syntax
rather illegible and quite difficult to type. But I'm sure there must be
quite a collection of vim tools to help your enter all these tags
rapidly.
Thank you very much.
cga
> --
> HTH,
> Hari
>
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