Matt Price <address@hidden> writes:
> A while ago I asked about a slack syntax exporter. I cpy text from org to
> slack often enough that I spent an hour or two today writing a simple one,
> which I put up in a gist:
> https://gist.github.com/titaniumbones/c0c171e4df8a6ff5f0f564b8a655c079
Nice, thank you!
> If people are interested, I will be happy to package it up & put on melpa
> or whatever (would be the first time for me).
Yes, I think it's quite likely that I would use this sometimes, so I'd
love if it was conveniently available.
I don't know how to add something to Melpa so that might be a while, I think I'm running out of personal time :-)
Best wishes,
Neil
> I mostly am interested in copy-paste, not in producing permanent files, so
> I use it with this simple utility function:
>
> (defun ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack ()
> "Export region to FMT, and copy to the kill ring for pasting into
> other programs."
> (interactive)
> (let* ((org-export-with-toc nil)
> (org-export-with-smart-quotes nil))
> (kill-new (org-export-as 'slack) ))
> )
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c W s") 'ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack)
>
> The "ora" prefix reflects its origins in an old oremacs function that I use
> for (much more involved) HTML copy-paste:
> - [[
> https://github.com/abo-abo/oremacs/commit/6c86696c0a1f66bf690e1a934683f85f04c6f34d#diff-ecff87135600df0cafffb47c303ae9c6][abo-abo's
> code from oremacs]]
> - [[
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/06/16/Copy-formatted-org-mode-text-from-Emacs-to-other-applications/#comment-2735698988][john's
> original post]]
>
>
> SO far it seems OK. There are doubtless still bugs so probably it would be
> better to make a repo after all!