Using Markdown as HTML

• showdown

  14 13,907 0.0 JavaScript

  A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript

  

I had an idea a while ago. Instead of dealing with two sets of files, why not make a file that was Markdown and HTML at the same time?

I found this utility, which unfortunately seems to have been abandoned: https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown

All you need to do is add a few lines to the top of your Markdown file. Here's an example:

https://trivialcode.com/mdhtml_demo/demo.mdhtml

Take a look at the source of the .mdhtml file and you'll see what I mean.

If you're taking notes in Markdown this might make things a bit easier to keep organized. No need to update anything if you're exporting to HTML.

Thoughts? Is this a good idea? A bad one? I also wondered if generating Markdown via a web server and then converting it on the fly like this would be an interesting exercise. Seems like it'd be simpler than generating HTML.

I use Vim, so I've put this in my vimrc for editing:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.mdhtml set syntax=markdown

First time posting here. Let me know what you guys think.

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