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

[Laurent Montel]

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

--- Comment #23 from Laurent Montel <montel at kde.org> ---
(In reply to avlas from comment #22)
> (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.

Ah ok. I don't know if it's possible but indeed I can look at it.

> 
> > > 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.

yep but in thunderbird they use a html editor directly...
It's not possible in Qt.

> 
> 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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