Short Cut Quick Format Tables

TomieH · 22 September 2020 05:29

Hi there,

I would love to see the quick table format short cut.

table formatter

This would be a very handy feature.

Cheers Thomas

philip-n · 16 October 2020 09:35

Just came here to post the same as a new feature request, but then I found yours. I wholeheartedly support it

Use case: Sometimes, I need to save markdown that others need to view without rendering (e.g. via terminal). In such cases, auto-formatted tables would come in very handy.

I tried using the WYSIWYG-editor as a "formatter" (make slight change to table in WYSIWYG to see if it looks nicer in markdown afterwards), but got rather the opposite from what I hoped for:

Before (table manually written in markdown)
Screenshot from 2020-10-16 11-30-52

After (using the WYSIWYG-editor to add a row)
Screenshot from 2020-10-16 11-31-24

laurent · 16 October 2020 11:03

Turns out I've already implemented such a plugin for testing purpose:

github.com

laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/CliClient/tests/support/plugins/selected_text/src/index.ts

import joplin from 'api';
import { ToolbarButtonLocation } from 'api/types';

function allEqual(input:string, char:string) {
	return input.split('').every(c => c === char);
}

joplin.plugins.register({
	onStart: async function() {
		joplin.commands.register({
			name: 'prettyMarkdownTable',
			label: 'Reformat the selected Markdown table',
			iconName: 'fas fa-music',
			execute: async () => {
				const selectedText = (await joplin.commands.execute('selectedText') as string);
				
				const lines = selectedText.split('\n');

				const cellWidths = [];

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So once v1.3 is released, you should be able to use this. It doesn't support ---: syntax though but that should be easy to add.

philip-n · 16 October 2020 11:24

That's awesome! Thanks for the quick reply, just updated to 1.2.6 and now I'm already looking forward to 1.3

pablopitta · 11 November 2020 08:42

Hi, a very interesting feature! The link shared by @laurent seems broken. The correct one should be this. How can it be compiled and use it in 1.3.18?

Is this feature included in the last release?

Thank you for the amazing work @laurent!

philip-n · 11 November 2020 09:13

I guess you mean the correct link should be the following (CliClient --> app-cli)?

github.com

laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/packages/app-cli/tests/support/plugins/selected_text/src/index.ts

import joplin from 'api';
import { ToolbarButtonLocation } from 'api/types';

function allEqual(input:string, char:string) {
	return input.split('').every(c => c === char);
}

joplin.plugins.register({
	onStart: async function() {
		joplin.commands.register({
			name: 'prettyMarkdownTable',
			label: 'Reformat the selected Markdown table',
			iconName: 'fas fa-music',
			execute: async () => {
				const selectedText = (await joplin.commands.execute('selectedText') as string);
				
				const lines = selectedText.split('\n');

				const cellWidths = [];

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(want to try this myself, but did not find the time yet. if you manage, I'll be happy to follow )

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