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> Subject: [squeak-dev] Markdown for Squeak
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> Has anyone ever written a Markdown engine for Squeak? I was
> unable to find anything that looked promising on SqueakSource
> or in the 3.10 Universe, but I'm having a difficult time
> believing no one's ever written one before.
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> Thanks,
> --Benjamin
Why bother? Just shell out to Markdown.pl with OSProcess. Markdown is a
big ball of complex regex and I don't think Squeak's regex support fully
supports everything Pearl's does. Add this extension to UnixProcess class
side
pipeString: aString throughCommand: aCommandString
| pipe1 pipe2 input output src dest child result delay |
pipe1 := OSPipe blockingPipe.
pipe2 := OSPipe nonBlockingPipe.
input := pipe1 reader.
output := pipe2 writer.
src := pipe1 writer.
dest := pipe2 reader.
child := self forkJob: aCommandString arguments: nil environment: nil
descriptors: { input. output. nil } .
input close.
output close.
src nextPutAll: aString.
src close.
delay := 10 milliSeconds asDelay.
[ child isComplete ] whileFalse: [ delay wait ].
result := dest upToEnd.
dest close.
child sigterm. "Tell the child to exit"
^ result withSqueakLineEndings
Then you can just do ...
UnixProcess pipeString: someContent throughCommand: 'Markdown.pl'
And you're good to go, assuming you've put Markdown.pl in your images
directory.
Ramon Leon
http://onsmalltalk.com
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