Mawkdown

Languages and libraries

markdown parser

SHOW HN2020

12points
4comments
#2,202of 3,028 in 2020
Top 73%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.

Idea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Interesting idea for a Markdown parser in Awk

    From 2 comments
    • Nice. Haven't gone through it fully, but the header parsing stood out for improvement. Use match to capture number of '#' characters and use length, for example: ``` $ echo '# '…
      asicsp on HN
    • Would it be ok to use elements of this to improve the one we ship with Werc? http://code.9front.org/hg/werc/file/2ace198c631b/bin/contrib/md2html.awk
      khm on HN

Objections

  • Header parsing could be improved using match and length

    From 1 comment
    • Nice. Haven't gone through it fully, but the header parsing stood out for improvement. Use match to capture number of '#' characters and use length, for example: ``` $ echo '# '…
      asicsp on HN

Requests

  • Use elements of the project to improve the md2html converter shipped with Werc

    From 1 comment
    • Would it be ok to use elements of this to improve the one we ship with Werc? http://code.9front.org/hg/werc/file/2ace198c631b/bin/contrib/md2html.awk
      khm on HN

Alternatives named

  • Werc md2html.awk

    From 1 comment
    • Would it be ok to use elements of this to improve the one we ship with Werc? http://code.9front.org/hg/werc/file/2ace198c631b/bin/contrib/md2html.awk
      khm on HN

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