cmark2jira

Translate good CommonMark (Markdown) into bad JIRA markup. This may be useful for anyone locked into Atlassian's prison of bad software.

Functionality is very minimal. It reads CommonMark from stdin and prints the converted content on stdout:

sh cargo install cmark2jira echo "*markdown!*" | cmark2jira

Vim Workflow

I have Vim setup so that I can easily pop open a new tab containing an ephemeral file where I can write a comment by pressing <leader>co:

``` vim function! NewComment() let r = strftime("%Y-%m-%d%H-%M-%S") execute "edit ~/Dropbox/notes/comments/blob" . fnameescape(r) . ".md" endfunction

nnoremap co :call NewComment() ```

After I'm done I press <leader>ji to run the tab's content through cmark2jira and put the result into my unnamed register (*) which is mapped on Mac OS to my clipboard:

``` vim function! ToJIRA() let @* = system('cmark2jira', join(getline(1,'$'), "\n")) endfunction

nnoremap ji :call ToJIRA() ```

I then make my way over to a browser tab with JIRA open and paste with Cmd+V.