Copy Markdown as rich text and plain unmarked text

Macro Library
#1

A macro which copies selected markdown to the clipboard in two forms:

  • Rich text (used when pasting into Rich Text editors and fields)
  • Plain text without the MD markup (used when pasting into text editors)

Copy Markdown as Rich (and unformatted plain) Text.kmmacros (24 KB)

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#2

Just as an FYI…

On M1-based Macs, Homebrew no longer installs to /usr/local/ but to /opt/homebrew/

So if you wanted to use this on an M1-based Mac that had installed multimarkdown via brew you would need to change all references of

/usr/local/bin/multimarkdown

to

/opt/homebrew/bin/multimarkdown

I've also mentioned this to Brett Terpstra, because some of his Markdown tools also assume /usr/local/bin/ as the only install location -- which made sense until very recently.

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#3

@ComplexPoint Thank you! Downloaded. :+1: .

#4

Thanks for sharing!

Currently using this removes all line breaks. Is it possible to keep line breaks? Thanks

#5

line breaks

That's essentially a feature of Markdown, which assumes that:

  • paragraphs will be separated be a pair of linefeeds (one whole blank line)
  • single linefeeds are just end of line (not end of para) and are to be discarded.

See, for example, the Paragraphs section of:

Basic Syntax | Markdown Guide

If that's not how you're working, then you may need a preceding script (or Keyboard Maestro action) which replaces \n with \n\n.

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