Plain text paste from Bike into iMessage?

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For when you do want, for any reason, to export a Bike file to Markdown, one route, which could be packaged in utilties like Keyboard Maestro etc, is through a Pandoc command line like:

pandoc -f html -t commonmark someFile.bike --lua-filter=noGap.lua

Where the contents of noGap.lua (pruning empty bullets, dropping inline Div or Span tags, converting highlighting to inline == markup, converting strikethrough to inline ~~ markup) might be something like:

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function BulletList(x)
    return pandoc.BulletList(
        x.content:filter(
            function(xs) return nil ~= next(xs) end
        )
    )
end

function Div(x)
    return x.content
end

function Span(x)
    if "mark" == x.classes[1] then
        if FORMAT:match 'docx' then
            x.attributes['custom-style'] = 'MarkYellow'
        elseif FORMAT:match '^.*mark' then
            return {
                pandoc.Str(
                    "==" .. pandoc.utils.stringify(
                        x.content
                    ) .. "=="
                )
            }
        else
            print("FORMAT unhandled for highlight: '" .. FORMAT .. "'. Ask.")
        end
    end

    return x
end

function Strikeout(x)
    -- This is just an alternative to flanking MD text
    -- with <s> .. </s> (See, for example iAWriter MD)
    if FORMAT:match '^.*mark' then
        return pandoc.Str(
            "~~" .. pandoc.utils.stringify(
                x.content
            ) .. "~~"
        )
    else
        return x
    end
end

See also sketches like:

Draft demos: Copy As Markdown & Save As Markdown - Bike - Hog Bay Software Support

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