Markdown renderer

[devnote-dev]

A renderer for markdown (markdown -> markdown, instead of just markdown -> HTML). This would be useful if you just want to insert/edit/remove parts of a markdown document (e.g. setting a default language for fenced code blocks).

[straight-shoota]

Just a note on that use case: Markdown syntax has quite a lot ambiguities and alternative styles to express the same thing. So the process parse -> mutate AST -> stringify can introduce syntactic changes besides the ones that you actually intent to do. Maybe this doesn't matter much for your use case, but it's an annoyance (at least) for many applications.
To avoid this you would need some way to convey information about syntax variations from the parser to the stringifier. Currently the AST is not capable of that.

[devnote-dev]

I see what you mean, for my use-case I'm setting the default language for doc comments in Crystal to crystal but that might cause issues if someone uses a tilde-based code block instead of a back tick one. At the same time, I'm not sure if it's worth implementing support for the variants as that specific edge case is unlikely.

[ralsina]

I can probably turn my markdown->ansi renderer into a markdown->markdown one by mostly deleting stuff. I'll give it a shot.

And yes, it will not render the same as the source, but on the other hand it could be considered a "markdown formatter" of sorts.

[ralsina]

Needs some bugfixes but not bad for half an hour of work:

[ralsina]

Getting there:

[ralsina]

A good-enough-for-now version is now merged in ralsina/markterm have fun :-)