Archive for July, 2009

Implementing Markdown with Regular Expressions

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Jeff Atwood has a post about something I’m intimately with, implementing a subset of Markdown using regular expressions. After years of tweaking and user contributions, the regexps in the Markdown Vim syntax file are now so complex, even I don’t understand them.


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