Source Map - Feature request

[am11]

Source maps are very useful for browser debugging and editor enhancements when implementing source-to-source trans-compilers.

Unfortunately, there is no markdown compiler out there which generates V3 source-maps, as CSS (LESS & SASS) and JavaScript (CoffeeScript & TypeScript) preprocessors do.

Please implement this feature in marked, so editors and browsers can take advantage of it.

Thanks in anticipation.

[kizu]

👍 it would be helpful, for example, for creating an inline commenting engine (similar to the one at medium.com), where you could select some words and attach a comment to them. Imagine a spell-checker like thing, where people could select some words in your blog, edit them and send a PR to your blog's repo without leaving your blog! Without the source maps it is barely possible. I guess there could be a lot of other use cases for the source maps like that.

[allouis]

👍

[Feder1co5oave]

I leave this here hoping it'll be helpful sometime in the future.
Anyone wanting to implement this should better take a look at the source map specification and use a source map generator library.

[joshbruce]

See #956

Closing as complete or stale