html -> markdown -> html

I wanted to use this plugin to write emails with sublime text. But when I activate GhostText within a gmail compose box, I get html in Sublime, and I don’t want to write my emails in html.

Would it be feasible to integrate GhostText with pandoc? Necessary additions would be

• new setting “use_pandoc” defaults to false
• detect if source is html
• add pandoc -f html -t markdown filter between chrome and sublime
• add pandoc -f markdown -t html filter between sublime and chrome

pandoc is very fast, so I don’t think speed is a major concern here. If you’re interested in this addition, I can implement it and make a pull request. (If you can tell me where the filters should go, that would be very helpful)

[subnut]

Select Plain text mode in gmail. Problem solved!

https://useplaintext.email/#gmail-web

[fregante]

You raise good points, this transformation is going to be lossy and likely a complex feature:

• when a contentEditable field is selected, the user should be asked:
  • HTML
  • plain text (flatten to .innerText)
  • markdown
• even before sending, the original content will be irrevocably lost if the user picks txt or md
• we probably don’t want to support anything but Markdown, this already requires a large library and substantial effort to implement, let alone if we were to offer custom replacements with options. Definitely no to that part.