On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:29 PM Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.homelinux.net>
wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > A while ago I asked about a slack syntax exporter.  I cpy text from org
> to
> > slack often enough that I spent an hour or two today writing a simple
> one,
> > which I put up in a  gist:
> > https://gist.github.com/titaniumbones/c0c171e4df8a6ff5f0f564b8a655c079
>
> Nice, thank you!
>
> > If people are interested, I will be happy to package it up & put on melpa
> > or whatever (would be the first time for me).
>
> Yes, I think it's quite likely that I would use this sometimes, so I'd
> love if it was conveniently available.
>
>
I've put it up in a repo: https://github.com/titaniumbones/ox-slack

I don't know how to add something to Melpa so that might be a while, I
think I'm running out of personal time :-)

Best wishes,
>    Neil
>
>
> > I mostly am interested in copy-paste, not in producing permanent files,
> so
> > I use it with this simple utility function:
> >
> > (defun ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack ()
> >       "Export region to FMT, and copy to the kill ring for pasting into
> > other programs."
> >       (interactive)
> >       (let* ((org-export-with-toc nil)
> >              (org-export-with-smart-quotes nil))
> >         (kill-new (org-export-as 'slack) ))
> >       )
> >     (global-set-key (kbd "C-c W s")
> 'ora-org-export-to-clipboard-as-slack)
> >
> > The "ora" prefix reflects its origins in an old oremacs function that I
> use
> > for (much more involved) HTML copy-paste:
> > - [[
> >
> https://github.com/abo-abo/oremacs/commit/6c86696c0a1f66bf690e1a934683f85f04c6f34d#diff-ecff87135600df0cafffb47c303ae9c6][abo-abo's
> > code from oremacs]]
> > - [[
> >
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/06/16/Copy-formatted-org-mode-text-from-Emacs-to-other-applications/#comment-2735698988][john's
> > original post]]
> >
> >
> > SO far it seems OK. There are doubtless still bugs so probably it would
> be
> > better to make a repo after all!
>