Journey to the West

— Dongsheng Cai 28 Apr 20

Today I was trying to convert some markdown files to dokuwiki format with pandoc, it came into my mind that I could use pandoc to format plaintext files, for example, github flavored markdown:

pandoc -f gfm -t gfm readme.md --columns=88

This could format the content and wrap line at column 88.

So I quickly hacked together an ale fixer which could automatically fix formatting issues on save for pretty much all plaintext files, markdown, wiki, org, even csv, you name it :)

Some interesting findings today:

• a quick vim script guide for js programmer by ale's author
• Vader: vim unit testing runner, it's created by Junegunn Choi, who also created fzf, vim-plug and vim-easy-align, nice work!