BBEdit has a cool feature called Text Factories for automating repetitive text transformations. When Younghart mentioned it on the forum, it got me thinking. While I can’t replicate the full power of Text Factories (which can chain multiple transformations, with all of BBEdit’s power), I could at least add a flexible regex search-and-replace system to…
I’ve made a couple of improvements to md-fixup, the opinionated Markdown formatting and linting tool I shared this week. The main additions are better emphasis handling and link conversion options. Emphasis Handling By default, md-fixup normalizes bold markers to __ (double underscore) and italic markers to * (single asterisk). So **bold** becomes __bold__ and _italic_…