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Created June 12, 2014 23:53
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Preview the Github Markdown to HTML convertion before committing. Bound to F12 in markdown-mode.
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gh_markdown_preview.el
;; Markdown preview helper
;; ------------------------------
(defun jsm/markdown-preview ()
"Preview the markdown file in a new browser tab"
(interactive)
(let ((my-filename (buffer-file-name))
(html-filename (format "%s.html" (file-name-base (buffer-file-name)))))
(shell-command (format "pandoc -f markdown_github -t html -o %s %s" html-filename my-filename) nil nil)
(browse-url (concat "file://" (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)) html-filename))))
(define-key markdown-mode-map (kbd "<f12>") 'jsm/markdown-preview)
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Requires installation of the pandoc utility. Available on Fedora systems via yum.

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