[kdepim] [Bug 406333] Markdown addon: support syntax highlighting

[avlas]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406333

--- Comment #22 from avlas <jsardid at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Laurent Montel from comment #21)
> (In reply to avlas from comment #20)
> > (In reply to Laurent Montel from comment #18)
> > > Created attachment 119461 [details]
> > > Screenshot
> > 
> > I had some ideas for further enhancement after seeing your screenshot (as
> > well as this one http://25.io/mou/img/1@2x.png):
> > 
> > 1) It would be great if Kmail composer would use KSyntaxHighlighting
> > technology as well to ease writing emails in markdown format, so it gets
> > automatically enabled when the markdown button in the composer is activated.
> 
> KSyntaxHighlighting highlights only text, it can create a html code but not
> for converting
> markdown to html.

Sorry, I think I didn't explain myself well. I was not talking here now about
the conversion from markdown to html, but about highlighting the email body in
the composer while writing (if/when the markdown button is activated). In that
case, it would be great to see how markdown keywords written in plain text get
automatically highlighted. This would help writing markdown emails, e.g. to
better structure the email or more easily visualize markdown typos.

> > 2) It would be so great to have a live preview (as shown in the link above;
> > please note that Kate has already something similar to this) instead of a
> > pop-up window.
> 
> We can't do it as composer is a "QTextEdit" and we need a html viewer/editor
> for showing
> mardown result. QTextEdit is too limited for html.

I see. That's a pity, such a feature would probably attract users, especially
KDE users using markdown-here in other email client applications or in the
browser.

I know there is the option but never tried using an external editor for writing
emails. I assume this would not be an option for writing emails in markdown
either, right? Saying because perhaps one could use Kate for this...

> > 3) It would be nice if there could be an option to remember the status of
> > the Markdown button in the composer.
> 
> We can do it. I will look at it.

Thank you!

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