fmt Branch, Empower Shell with Go text/templateAs I’ve been adding text/template support to most all of the fields of
any bonzai.Command I realized that we have all the code necessary to
implement a mark Bonzai branch, and to factor all the BonzaiMark stuff
out of the bonzai package. I’m already excited about the possibility
of z mark ... to create amazing reports and other output. In fact, I
need this before I do z zet and z keg because I can use that instead
of pandoc for sure. Pandoc is great, but it’s templating absolutely
sucks. But everything sucks compared to Go templating.
The fmt branch will be only template formatting with no additional
markup handling. Some people will want their own Markdown. In fact, it
makes sense to keep mark only BonzaiMark and fmt only template
replacement, then we just pipe the one into the other ( z fmt file
foo.md -- mark)
In fact, the new template functions will be very useful from a generic sense:
These would be relative to the Caller of the md command. By being
able to use var set for things so many things are possible. Obviously,
templates must only be allowed from a trusted source.
This makes me very happy since it is perl formatted output but so much better. Generating reports and static HTML sites will be a breeze.
#golang #bonzai #fmt #markdown #plans