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Feature Request: GitHub style Task Lists

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Mathias Leppich

21 Jun, 2013 06:33 AM

Hi, first I like to thank you for developing such a great product!

I <3 markdown, so I also use it for my day to day todo-list management. Inspired by GitHubs Task List extension in GFM, which sadly is only available in Pull Requests and Issues. See: https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown#task-lists

- [x] start new servers
- [ ] deploy new release
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It would be awesome to have the same functionality build into Marked.app!

• render Task Lists with checkboxes
• allow check/uncheck of tasks, modifying the markdown accordingly

Mathias

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 21 Jun, 2013 01:15 PM

   

   I'd consider this in the future.

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2. 2 Posted by Mathias Leppich on 21 Jun, 2013 01:31 PM

   

   Great! ...in the meantime I have hacked around via custom processor. But this only allows to render checkboxes, not to interact with them.

   See: https://gist.github.com/muhqu/5831075

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3. 3 Posted by Tyler Reinhard on 13 Jul, 2013 09:38 PM

   

   I'll second this request. It would be huge for me.

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4. 4 Posted by Sean on 22 Jul, 2013 01:57 AM

   

   Third-ed

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5. 5 Posted by dilmamds on 08 Aug, 2013 12:29 AM

   

   +1

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6. Support Staff 6 Posted by Brett on 08 Aug, 2013 12:34 AM

   

   This is a fine idea, but Marked does not alter or save files and, after consideration, I currently have no intention of making it doing so.

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7. 7 Posted by Tyler Reinhard on 08 Aug, 2013 02:17 AM

   

   Hey Brett, this is Tyler in Winona (we had coffee once). With respect to this GitHub style checkboxes feature ... I actually didn't mean to suggest that they'd alter the original file, just render a checkbox form element. That way you could use marked for temporary to-do lists, and save common tasks as a nvalt .md file.

   Hope this clarifies the request, thanks for the response.

   I'm on my phone, pardon the brevity.

   ## Tyler Reinhard ... http://abolish.me

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8. Support Staff 8 Posted by Brett on 08 Aug, 2013 11:19 AM

   

   It does, and I'm willing to do that.

   -Brett (on iPhone)

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9. 9 Posted by Arel Cordero on 18 Aug, 2013 12:36 AM

   

   Hi Brett,

   First of all, thanks for the great app!

   I'll also +1 this request! It was the reason I wanted a markdown app in the first place (I was hoping 99% GitHub compatibility included checkboxes), and I would love to see the feature added. I find GitHub's checkboxes extremely useful--viewing and being able to check them.

   I hope you reconsider the check/uncheck functionality! (Even if only in GitHub mode.)

   -Arel

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10. 10 Posted by dale on 02 Oct, 2013 02:38 PM

    

    +1 on this as well. I don't have any need to interact with the checkboxes.

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11. Support Staff 11 Posted by Brett on 02 Oct, 2013 04:29 PM

    

    Ok, I've added it for a future update as a preference, enabled by default since I don't think too many people would use the syntax without wanting to see it rendered.

    Notes:

    I wanted to just do the replacement in the initial processing of the Markdown, but GitHub styles their resulting lists with a class on the main list that removes all the bullet points, and a class on the input items.

    I can't pass a class to a MultiMarkdown element and there's no way to normalize syntax for custom processors, so I ended up just doing it in JavaScript after loading. I think that's how GitHub is doing it anyway.

    Anyway, it's ready, should be in 2.0.1.

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12. Brett closed this discussion on 02 Oct, 2013 04:29 PM.