Markdown Macros in MarsEdit

I have decided to move over to tumblr for my blogging needs (more on this later). tumblr supports writing posts in Markdown, which I have come to appreciate as a nice way of writing text. For writing posts, I use MarsEdit, which even has a built in Markdown filter to give me a preview of how things will look.

Mowever, the default markup macros output HTML. Seemed a little pointless, so I decided to change the macros to output Markdown, making my writing much nicer… here is what I came up with:

add link opening:
```
  [
```
add link closing:
```
  ](#askurl Add Link:#)
```
paste link opening:
```
  [
```
paste link closing:
```
  ](#pasteurl#)
```
bold opening and closing:
```
  **
```
italics opening and closing:
```
  *
```
preformatted:
```
  \t (aka a tab)
```

line break:

  \s\s\n (aka two spaces and a newline)

paragraph opening:

  \n #selected text# (aka a new line then the text)

paragraph closing:
```
  \n\n
```
(aka two new lines)
blockquote:
```
  > #selection#
```
code opening:
```
  ` #selected text#
```
code closing:
```
  `
```
h1 opening:
```
  # #selected text#
```
h1 closing:
```
   #
```

(for the other headers, just add more # to the opening and closing)

Pretty basic.. I’ve considered the possibility of writing Applescripts to convert selections to lists, etc. I might use this as a guide.

2009/12/17