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LinkSmasher updated, works once again

Brett — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:00:49 +0000

If you’re using Dropzone (and why wouldn’t you be?), I updated my LinkSmasher destination recently.

You can drop text on it (or just click it to use the clipboard) and it will scan for any links in the text, compile them and create a single link for the group using linkbun.ch. It’s a handy way to share a list of urls and allow the recipient to open them all at once (and works really well with TabLinks for sharing an entire browsing session). If there’s only one URL in the text, it will just shorten it with bit.ly and return the result in your clipboard.

I’d really like to get this working with bit.ly collections, but I haven’t checked lately to see if they’ve added that to the API. If I get around to it, and they did, that will be next up for this little project.

You can find all contributed Dropzone Destinations on Github (direct link to LinkSmasher). Install Destinations by saving the script to a file in ~/Library/Application Support/Dropzone/Destination Scripts with a .dropzone extension, then add a new destination in Dropzone preferences and it will be an option.

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at LinkSmasher updated, works once again

Markdown Editing for Sublime Text 2: humble beginnings

Brett — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:30:37 +0000

I was disappointed to find that there weren’t any good packages available for Sublime Text 2 that added decent Markdown editing features. I figured it was time to learn my way around. I still haven’t dug into Python, so my script-fu in there is weak right now. I got a few things working, though, and this will evolve as I learn new things. I’ll probably look back at this first version with embarrassment, but I’ll just overwrite it with better stuff as it progresses.

From the README on the Github repo:

This package will make MarkdownEditor your default theme for Markdown/MultiMarkdown files. Adjust it to your liking or remove the line from the .sublime-settings files

Asterisks and underscores are autopaired and will wrap selected text
If you start an empty pair and hit backspace, both elements are deleted
If you start an empty pair and hit space, the right element is deleted
backticks are paired
Left bracket pairing is modified to eliminate the selection and leave the cursor at a point where you can insert a [] or () pair for a link
⌘⌥V will paste the contents of the clipboard as an inline link on selected text
⌘⌥R will paste the contents of the clipboard as a reference link
⌘K inserts a standard inline link, ⌘⇧K inserts an inline image
⌘B and ⌘I are bound to bold and italics (Markdown). If you don’t like losing your default shortcut for “Build”, modify the sublime-keymap file. This only overrides while editing Markdown files.

There’s a long way to go and I have a lot of Python to learn.

The theme pays some homage to Byword, but I make no pretense that it’s anywhere as pretty.

Installation

Just download or clone the MarkdownEditing repo into a MarkdownEditing folder within your ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages folder. You may have to restart Sublime to get it working, but once it’s installed (if all goes well), you should be able to open a Markdown file and see my custom theme. If you do, then the features listed above should also be available.

Right now, this is designed to be tweaked. I can’t guess what you’re preferred editing environment is like, so I went with mine. I’d love to see any permutations you come up with.

Oh, and by the way, if you’re doing any theming for Sublime Text, here’s a handy little plugin I whipped up to copy the scope of the character after the cursor to the clipboard for easily adding keys to a .tmtheme XML file:

Also check out Philip Belesky’s Byworded themes for TextMate and Sublime Text 2.

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Markdown Editing for Sublime Text 2: humble beginnings

Scatterbrains: git as biographer

Brett — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:00:57 +0000

This is another of my attempts at keeping track of my day in an orderly fashion. It’s a pretty simple idea. Given that most of of what I do is stored in git repositories, my commit logs are my best bet for seeing what I’ve accomplished each day. I just needed to pull them together and bundle them up without having to think about it. If a lot of your work happens in git repositories and you make frequent commits, this might be of use to you.

This script runs nightly and visits a list of local git repositories to extract a log of any commits for the day. It formats them as Markdown and can log them to Day One or just to a plain text file (single file, appended). There’s an accompanying shell command for easily adding the current directory as a repo to check.

This is what my log looks like in nvALT (with a custom theme):

GitLogger log in nvALT

Git notes are included, as is body text of the commit if it exists. Formatting creates an unordered list, and short hashes for the commits are added at the end of the commit message, just in case you need them.

As usual, if you’re interested in trying it, I’m happy to share…

Automatic installation

You can use the following command to automatically install the script and have it run at 11:50pm daily:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/2633967/ed3f35df05ba12f1ab7176c12ad174d5210b38f1/gitlogger-install.rb)"

Manual install

Save the script below (gist link) as gitlogger.rb in a script or bin folder on your drive.
Use the variables at the top to set it up for logging to Day One (dayone = true), or enter a path to a text file (textlog = "path/to/text.md"). If you don’t want to use text file logging, just set that option to “false”.
If you’re logging to Day One, see this post for more instructions. This script doesn’t need the dayone CLI tool, but if you’re not using iCloud for storing your journal, you’ll need to modify the paths to point to your journal file.

The second little script (gist link) is a bash function for adding whatever directory I’m working in to the list that the logger uses to find repos for logging. For consistent results in building the repo list, run the glog command from the base directory of the git repository. Set it once and forget it. You can remove repos from logging by editing the file at ~/.gitlogger. You can also just create that file by hand: each line is a repo, with the title first, followed by a colon, followed by the path.

Add this function to your ~/.bash_profile to be able to mark the current directory for logging by typing glog Alias, where “Alias” is the name you want to appear for the repo in your log.

To automate the script, I suggest using launchd (the OS X version of cron). Use Lingon or copy the code below into a file called com.yourusername.gitlogger.plist and save it in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/. After creating the file, you’ll want to run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.yourusername.gitlogger.plist to get it started (or log out and back in, but that takes too long). The code as is will set up the logger to run at 11:50pm every night (in your local time). You’ll want to edit the Label and the ProgramArguments values to match your setup.






    Label
    com.brettterpstra.gitlogger
    ProgramArguments
    
        /usr/bin/ruby
        /Users/ttscoff/scripts/gitlogger.rb
    
    StartCalendarInterval
    
        Hour
        23
        Minute
        50

Maybe this will be of use to somebody. Code contributions and suggestions welcome, just follow the links on the gists above to fork. My personal git workflow works well with this logging statement, but you might want to modify it to log tags only, etc. Let me know what you do with it!

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Scatterbrains: git as biographer

Natural Language Date Service update

Brett — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:08:36 +0000

I made a small update to the natural language date Service that I put together a while back. I wanted it to handle input formats like “+3″ to get a date for 3 days from right now, and to handle adding times to the output if there’s a time-like string in the input.

Now you can use, for example:

date +5
long +21
short tomorrow 2pm
date thurs 3:15pm

Just a couple of tweaks because I found I needed them. The download has been updated (see bottom of post), and we’ll call it version 1.1.

p.s. I know I’ve been a little quiet on the blog lately, I’ve had my head buried in too many projects. Marked has some fantastic new features, though, including MarsEdit and VoodooPad support, as well as the ability to accept an entire folder as input and always preview the most recently-edited text file. The latter is perfect for nvALT and Jekyll blogs. Lots of writing to do for other projects, too, so there may be some more dead air. I’m not gone, I’m just making stuff.

Download

Convert Date — Natural Language Date Service — A System Service which takes selected text and parses it into a standard date format, using keywords at the beginning to define which format to use. More Info

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Natural Language Date Service update

New text navigation KeyBindings

Brett — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:59:12 +0000

I haven’t had much time to write here this week thanks to some day job stress, major additions to Marked, writing for other venues, updating iTextEditors and various other fun. I had a brainstorm that resulted in new KeyBindings this morning, though, and thought it would be a good chance to get a post up before anyone thinks I’ve been kidnapped.

In case you’ve missed my past keybinding craziness, you can catch up on the evolution in the tag archive. Basically, OS X has a text system that lets you add custom commands and shortcuts that trigger sequences of the text commands you use every day (e.g. option-arrow word navigation, command-arrow to end of line, etc.).

My shorcut collection is pretty extensive (and beyond even my capability to memorize), but you can pick and choose what’s handy for you and create your own KeyBindings.dict file from it. The latest versions are always up on Github.

Paragraph navigation

The new bindings are primarily for paragraph navigation. One of the features I’ve come to love in several code editing applications is the ability to jump to the first character in the line (after any whitespace). So I added Command-Option-Left/Right Arrow navigation to do just that (and handle last character before trailing whitespace as well). I also added one that jumps to the first alphanumeric character in the line, which is great when working with Markdown lists. The unordered ones, at least, because numbers will stop the movement and it has the same result as jump to first character. This is bound to Control-Command-Option-Left Arrow. You can use them from anywhere in the paragraph, even if you’re at the beginning of a line and intuitively think that left arrow will move backward… with these commands it will always jump to the first character even if it’s in front of the cursor.

Jumping to the last character is cool, but in most of my work any whitespace after that shouldn’t be there. Even when I’m just writing Markdown, I don’t want any extra space triggering a hard line break accidentally. I added one more command to the set for this purpose: Control-Option-Right Arrow jumps to the last character and deletes any space following it. In a similar vein, I updated the Full Outdent command (Control-Shift-Command-Left Arrow) to use the same technique, no longer deleting the first character if the line was already fully outdented.

~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict code for all of the above:

// Move to first Alphanumeric character of line (new)
  "@~^\UF702" = (moveToBeginningOfParagraph:,moveWordRight:, moveWordLeft:);
// Move to first non-whitespace character of line (new)
"@~\UF702" = (moveToBeginningOfParagraph:, insertText:, " ", moveLeft:, selectWord:, moveRight:, setMark:, moveToBeginningOfParagraph:, deleteForward:, swapWithMark:, moveLeft:);
// Select to first character of line with leading space (new)
"@~$\UF702" = (setMark:,moveToBeginningOfParagraph:,selectWord:, moveRight:, selectToMark:);
// Move to last non-whitespace character of paragraph (new)
"~@\UF703" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertText:, " ", selectWord:, moveLeft:, setMark:, moveToEndOfParagraph:, deleteBackward:, swapWithMark:);
// Move to end of paragraph and delete trailing whitespace (new)
"^~\UF703" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertText:, " ", selectWord:, deleteBackward:);

Markdown line breaks

Lastly, this somehow inspired me to add a couple of linebreak commands. In Markdown, adding two spaces at the end of a line causes it to be interpreted as a hard break instead of just concatenating the next line to it in a paragraph. I bound Control-Option-Return to add these spaces to the end of the current line–regardless of cursor position–and begin a new line.

The other line break command (Control-Command-Return) is Markdown again, this time adding two spaces and starting a new paragraph from the cursor position; basically just a way to add a quick hard line break in the middle of a paragraph. This binding conflicts with the Line Focus shortcut in Byword¹, by the way, so if I get used to using it I’ll either change the binding in Byword (I never use line focus) or update my own bindings. Feel free to change it to whatever is intuitive to you, keeping in mind that control-enter and shift-enter may already be bound to behaviors in the Cocoa application you’re working in.

Here’s the code for these:

// Add hard break for current line and insert newline below (new)
"^~\U000D" = (moveToEndOfParagraph:, insertText:, " ", selectWord:, deleteBackward:, insertText:, "  ", insertNewline:);
// Break line at cursor and add Markdown hard line break (new)
"^@\U000D" = (insertText:, "  ", insertNewline:);

Cheatsheet

In addition to the readme.md file in the repo, I’ve updated the Cheaters cheat sheet for the KeyBindings (because I regularly lose track of the shortcuts for lesser-used bindings). The new sheet is available as a gist or you can just right-click and download the raw file. If you have a default install of Cheaters, you can just overwrite the old keybindings.html file with this one. The new keybindings are marked with “(new)” in green, which is mostly for my own good in locating them quickly².

Grab the whole thing from the KeyBindings repo on Github.

I know, I’m a little crazy.

Command-Enter–my TextMate-style binding for starting a new paragraph from anywhere within a line without breaking it–also conflicts with the full-screen keyboard shortcut. I overrode that one in Byword using System Preferences->Keyboard->Applications, but I also include Option-O and Option-Shift-O (Vim-like) in the default file for this reason. ↩
I really want to add an in-page search to Cheaters. It would greatly improve its usefulness for me if I could just quickly type any part of what I’m looking for and jump to the info. I’ll work on that soon, I think. ↩

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at New text navigation KeyBindings

Desktop countdown timer with GeekTool and AppleScript

Brett — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:50:43 +0000

I just realized today, quite belatedly, that you can control GeekTool on your Mac with AppleScript. I just wanted to play around with it a bit, so I threw together a countdown timer. This could be done much more elegantly, I’m sure; I just wanted to see what I could pull off quickly.

The script takes an argument ending in an integer (interpreted as minutes), or a colon-separated hour/minutes argument. The last argument is always the time from now. For example Pick up the kids 1:30 would set a timer for an hour and 30 minutes from now. Feed the fish 10 would set a timer to go off in 10 minutes.

The script calculates the target time and then runs a loop every second to update a GeekTool shell geeklet with the countdown timer. Yes, you could probably do this more efficiently by making use of the Geeklet’s interval property, but… meh, I don’t have an excuse. I kind of thought of that after writing the script. It’s Sunday, lay off.

If you want to play with it, you need to have GeekTool installed and running. Create a Shell Geeklet by dragging the shell icon to your desktop from the GeekTool window. In the properties for the geeklet, name it “GeekTimer” and leave the timeout and refresh values at zero. Size it so that it’s the full width of your screen, set the paragraph justification to centered, pick a font/color and make it as large as you want.

Now, save the AppleScript below as a file called geektooltimer somewhere on your drive. Wherever you put it, you’ll need to adjust any commands that call it to match your own path.

The AppleScript

#!/usr/bin/osascript

on padNum(_num)
    if _num < 10 then set _num to "0" & _num
    return _num
end padNum

on run argv
    set message to item 1 of argv

    tell application "GeekTool Helper" to set command of shell geeklet named "GeekTimer" to "echo"

    set {astid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, " "}
    set _task to text items 1 thru ((count of text items of message) - 1) of message as string
    set _min to last item of text items of message
    if (offset of ":" in _min) > 0 then
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
        set _min to (item 1 of text items of _min) * 60 + (item 2 of text items of _min)
    end if
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid

    set _date to current date
    set _target to (_date + (_min * 60))
    repeat
        set timeLeft to (_target - (current date))
        set minLeft to round timeLeft / 60 rounding down
        if minLeft > 60 then
            set minLeft to (round minLeft / 60 rounding down) & ":" & padNum(minLeft mod 60)
        else
            set minLeft to padNum(minLeft)
        end if
        set secLeft to padNum(timeLeft mod 60)
        tell application "GeekTool Helper"
            set command of shell geeklet named "GeekTimer" to "echo \"" & _task & " in " & minLeft & ":" & secLeft & "\""

            if (current date) ≥ _target then
                do shell script "/usr/bin/afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Glass.aiff"
                set command of shell geeklet named "GeekTimer" to "echo \"Time to " & _task & "\""
                return "Time to " & _task
            end if
        end tell
        delay 1
    end repeat
end run

Note that the hashbang at the beginning will let you make it executable and call it without osascript, but I used osascript in the methods below just to be safe.

When the timer is up, it will use afplay to ring a bell and set the final text of the Geeklet to your reminder title. I’m pretty sure afplay is included in a standard install, but if you run into issues just remove that line or substitute your own alert method.

As a Bash function

I’m mostly calling this script from the command line. I added a function to ~/.bash_profile that looks like this:

## GeekTool Timer
# `gtt Pick up the kids 1:30` sets a timer for 1 hour and 30 minutes
# `gtt Feed the fish 10` will set a timer for 10 minutes
# Running `gtt` with no arguments will clear the running timer and exit
gtt() {
    # if a timer is running, kill it
    pid=$(ps ax | grep -E "osascript .*/geektooltimer" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')
    [[ $pid ]] && kill $pid
    # Clear any existing text
    /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "GeekTool Helper" to set command of shell geeklet named "GeekTimer" to "echo"'
    # if there are arguments, run the script with them. 
    if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then
        /usr/bin/osascript ~/scripts/geektooltimer "$*" 2>&1 &
    fi
}

Drop that into your ~/.bash_profile and run source ~/.bash_profile. Now, in combination with the previous AppleScript, you have a gtt command for setting timers on your desktop from Terminal. Be sure to modify the path in the last command (the one that calls geektooltimer) to match the location of the AppleScript you created.

The function first checks to see if a timer is already running, and if so, kills it. Then it clears any text currently in the “GeekTimer” Geeklet, and then runs the AppleScript and passes all command line arguments as one quoted string. The geektoolreminder script handles parsing out the last number and turns the preceding text into the reminder title. Running just gtt without any arguments will clear the current timer.

There’s not a lot of error checking involved, so incorrect parameters will throw errors on the command line. Feel free to spiff it up.

As a Launchbar (or Alfred or whatever) action

You can also call the script from Launchbar by creating an action like:

on handle_string(message)
    do shell script "/Users/ttscoff/scripts/geektooltimer '" & message & "' &"
end handle_string

Name the action “GeekTool Reminder” (save it in ~/Library/Application Support/Launchbar/Actions/GeekTool Reminder.scpt). You’ll call it up by popping up Launchbar and typing “GTR” or similar, then pressing space. Enter the text of the reminder and end it with a minute or hour:minute designation. Minor catch: execute it with Option-Return to run it in the background, otherwise Launchbar will freeze until the timer is up.

In Alfred you can probably make a straight shell script that runs in the background automatically, so it would be more in line with the Bash function above than with the Launchbar AppleScript method.

What I’m hoping is that this example will get a ball rolling, and someone will see a little bit more exciting potential in it than I came up with on a lazy Sunday. Got a cool AppleScript (or even an idea) for GeekTool? I’d love to hear about it!

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Desktop countdown timer with GeekTool and AppleScript

Marked 1.4 is go

Brett — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:30:53 +0000

Marked 1.4 is available on the Mac App Store. I’m announcing this a little prematurely; the press release doesn’t go out until tomorrow morning, but I’m just too excited to hold off.

There are quite a few new features, including Scrivener, Leanpub and mmd_merge support, as well as a syntax for including external files with full MultiMarkdown (or custom) processing. This means that you can create a single index file (multiple formats available) and have Marked generate a complete document preview (combining multiple files in the order specified in the index), while watching all of the included files at once.

You can also include external files anywhere in a normal document using simple syntax, and a slight variation of the syntax will include files as code blocks. Related: updated Github style, option to preserve line breaks, support for fenced code blocks and automatic syntax highlighting with language detection. Phew.

There are also print improvements, including the ability to force a page break arbitrarily or to create page breaks before h1 and/or h2 headers. Marked 1.4 can even scroll the preview to the point at which you’re editing in your document (I think I might have buried the lead there).

I updated the internal Markdown reference to include basic MultiMarkdown syntax, turned the help into an HTML-based system which exists outside of the Apple Help System, and updated the Quick Overview intro screen. It’s now awesome. If you’re not a new user and have already disabled that on startup, use Help->Quick Overview to revel in the CSS3 glory. That’s a bit dramatic, but it’s pretty cool.

This version is the first version of Marked that is Lion-only¹, and it takes advantage of several new tools in the OS for optimization and stability.

For the full list of new features and fixes, see the changelog. The full help system for Marked is available online now, too, if you’d like to explore. Then, of course, go upgrade (and update your reviews, please) or buy it if you haven’t yet! The Marked website just got a refresh as well, be sure to check it out.

Up next: I plan to fully incorporate Fountain in the next version (hopefully with Final Draft export), as well as the ability to watch an entire folder and display a preview of the most recently-edited file (perfect for nvALT and bookwriting). I’ve already added more text stats for the next version (1.5), including reading time, average syllables, unique word count and more.

If you’ve been running Marked on a 32-bit Snow Leopard system and are having issues, a stable version for Snow Leopard ONLY is available for free. This is version 1.3.2 of Marked, the last version that was fully compatible with these systems. I’m unable to continue developing for multiple platforms, but will release bugfixes for this version as needed. ↩

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Marked 1.4 is go

Proximity hacking

Brett — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:39:00 +0000

I’ve been trying for years to get a decent Bluetooth “proximity” setup going so that my iPhone can trigger lighting setups as I enter and exit a room. I think I’ve finally nailed it, though I’m sure there’s plenty more testing to do.

The biggest problem I kept running into was that I could get lights to go on when I entered a room, but while I sat–even when the phone was motionless on my desk–lights would randomly turn off and turn back on. So…

I took the original “Proximity” code and updated it for Lion, in the process modifying it to check for valid signal strength instead of just a device name in the active paired list. I also incorporated dxxb’s patch to check three times before declaring that a device has left the Bluetooth range. Spruced up the pref panel a little and added an RSSI indicator to the drop menu in the menubar.

I’m using this with Indigo and some X10 lamp modules to turn on my office lights when I enter and–more importantly–turn them off when I leave to prevent my wife from complaining about me always leaving my lights on.

This is “use at your own risk.” I don’t think there’s anything going on here that would harm your computer (or even crash it), but I haven’t tested it on any machines other than my Mac Pro.

The code with my mods is all up on github, and you can download a Lion-only binary below. I apologize for the menubar icon, the old one had jaggy edges so I wanted to update it. In the process I made an abomination. I’ll remedy that soon. The “Check for updates” button still polls the original author’s site, so that won’t get you far. If I continue to update this beyond new icons, I’ll swap that over to my own site.

Download

Proximity mod — A mod for Proximity to make it more precise and less likely to get a false \“away\” reading. More Info

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Proximity hacking

Sparkup System Service, HTML shorthand everywhere

Brett — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:00:14 +0000

I’m shocked that this hasn’t been done before. I’m sure it has, really, but my searches didn’t turn anything up…

Many web devs/designers are familiar with Zen Coding, a little tool available for many text editors which turns shorthand strings into full HTML, among a lot of other nifty tricks. A derivation called Sparkup came out a couple of years back. It added the ability to backtrack up the hierarchy from within the shorthand snippet, which I found to be amazingly useful.

So this all started when I made a keybinding yesterday which turns selected text into a paired HTML tag and allows attributes, so div id="heythere" converts to

when I type Control-< (TextMate style). That’s available on the KeyBindings github repo, if you’re interested. I showed the KeyBinding to Joe Bartlett and the first thing he asked was whether it could do what Zen Coding does. Rabbit hole.

It wouldn’t happen as a keybinding, but it could work as a System Service. No use reinventing the wheel, so I spent a while playing with getting Zen Coding to fit before I remembered Sparkup. Sparkup’s features are pretty minimal compared to the huge toolset that Zen has become, and as such it fits in one file with no dependencies. Perfect for a Service.

I packaged it up and am posting it here. Totally not my work:

Sparkup is written by Rico Sta. Cruz and is released under the MIT license.

This project is inspired by Zen Coding of Vadim Makeev. The Zen HTML syntax is forward-compatible with Sparkup (anything that Zen HTML can parse, Sparkup can too).

Download the System Service version below. To use it, unzip and add the .workflow file to ~/Library/Services. Then, open up System Preferences and go to the keyboard shortcuts tab. Select System Services, find it in the panel on the right and click the “Add Shortcut” button that appears when you hover over the right side of its row in the list. Give it a keyboard shortcut you’ll remember. I used Ctrl-, because that’s what it’s bound to in Espresso. Muscle memory.

Now you can type out a shorthand string, select it and hit your shortcut key to watch it blossom into full HTML. Like a code flower. There are quite a few of examples on the Sparkup page, so I’m not going to break down the syntax here. Basically:

div.prettyneat#really>ul>li.item$*2li*2{ordered list item}+p.last

becomes:


    
        
        
    
    
        ordered list item
        ordered list item

Note that, unlike Zen Coding, you can use “<” to traverse back up the tree. You can also use linebreaks and indentations on longer strings if it helps you keep things straight. Useful when you’re laying out an entire document structure in one string:

div.prettyneat#really>
p.first{content}
+p*2
+ul>
    li.item$*6>a[href=#]
<
    li*3{ordered list item}
+p.last

Also, “html:5″ will give you a full HTML5 document with UTF-8 meta, head and body, and additional elements appended with “>” will go inside the body section. Very handy to have when you’re outside of your usual HTML editor.

Download

Sparkup System Service — Sparkup (https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup) as an OS X System Service. More Info

Originally posted on BrettTerpstra.com at Sparkup System Service, HTML shorthand everywhere

Experiment: CSV to MMD tables with color coding

Brett — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:48:33 +0000

This is a quick experiment with Google Docs, CSVs, MultiMarkdown tables and CSS3 selectors. It’s really hackish, but it’s a start. I wanted to take Google Docs spreadsheet output and turn it into a clean table with color coding and my own styling. Here’s what I’ve done so far (example output here):

Downloaded the iOS text editor spreadsheet as a CSV
Opened in Numbers for minor edits
- Added a row of :-----: alignment syntax under first (header) row
- Removed long text (HTML tables are a pain with wrapping and overflow)
Exported a new CSV with changes
Regex magic to convert CSV to MMD table (almost automatically, still 5 minutes of hand editing)
Applied basic CSS3 using inline