Add support for markdown in TUI, console, clipboard using pypandoc library #425
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As it turns out, the
pandoc
utility, withpypandoc
Python bindings, do a better job converting HTML to markdown thanhtml2text
ormarkdownify
libraries.Pandoc
is widely used and maintained, in contrast to the other libraries.In the TUI, statuses are rendered in HTML by
urwidgets
if available, fallback is markdown (viapandoc
if available), and finally plaintext if neitherurwidgets
norpandoc
are available.In the console and clipboard, status rendering is in markdown via
pandoc
, fallback to plaintext ifpandoc
is not available.TODO:
Here's an example of markdown rendering in the TUI. This is using github-flavored-markdown, FWIW.
This addresses issue #416 .