Sublime Text Markdown-to-HTML-email

Question

I'm loving that I can use Editorial (iOS) to compose an email in Markdown and pipe a rendered HTML message straight to Mail.app. I'd love to do this with Sublime Text 3 and Sparrow (or any default mail client) on the Mac, and I'm wondering whether it will be possible (or sensible) for me to make a Sublime package or build script.

The only problem is that I don't know Python. I'm not looking for the final solution, just whether my plan of using Python is a reasonable one given that I'd like to actually get this working.

Answer 1

That's a pretty cool idea actually.

• Step 1: Get a markdown syntax definition, like: sublime-markdown-extended

• Step 2: Go to "Tools -> Build System -> New Build System" and add your new build:

  ---

  { 
      "cmd": ["python", "-u", "/path/to/convert.py $file"],
      "selector": "source.markdown",
      "path": "/usr/local/lib/python"
  }
  

• Step 3: convert.py uses markdown2 to create html and opens Mail.app for you:

  ---

  import sys
  import markdown2
  
  with open(sys.argv[0]) as f:
      script = 'tell application "Mail"' \
         'make new outgoing message with properties {' \
         'visible:true,content:"%s" }' \
      'end tell' % markdown2.markdown(f.read())
  
      p = Popen('/usr/bin/osascript',stdin=PIPE,stdout=PIPE)
      p.communicate(script)