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[learnedax]

I'm not the only one who's written perl* just to construct an LJ comment, right?

... right?

*or some similar lightweight script

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[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

i write all my comments (and my posts, when i do post) in Markdown, and then use a Cocoa TextService to do the conversion right in my browser’s input field.

for trivial comments (one that do not strictly require any HTML markup) the process takes only a few seconds longer than it would take to just let LJ autoformat; for any comment that requires markup (emphasis, links, lists) the process is much quicker and less prone to error than writing the HTML by hand would be for me.

-steve

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

You know, that looks like a really useful set of tools, and I think I may start using them (at least when at home). In this one-off instance I would have used a script to pre-mark the stuff I was quoting anyway, but there are a lot of things Markdown would make easier.