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Need to think about defaults.

If there's no title, is there a point to support?

Could you please add Telegram and Whatsapp formats?

#3 (comment):

suspect a better way than mapping file extensions to Jira language tags would be to map Emacs modes to language tags. That way you get to take advantage of all the work put into auto-mode-alist over the years.

@mavit

Reddit confuses people a lot, because its current default front-end supports code formatting options which are not supported by the old front-end (and reddit has shown no interest in fixing this long-standing problem). Consequently people using the default front-end have no idea that the code they paste is liable to look incredibly broken for many of their readers, unless someone points it out to them.

The single formatting technique which is compatible between the old and the new is to indent everything by 4 spaces. If copy-as-format had a reddit option which did that, that would help to reduce the number of broken posts seen at https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs

right now the only api is the copy-as-format function which inspects the prefix argument and relies on the region being active.

it would be nice to have a public function that would take two positions (begin and end) and a format argument (string, t to prompt for format, nil for default format) that would copy the text in between those two positions using the specified format.

something like this:

(defun copy-as-format-positions (beg end &optional format)
  ...)

this would allow for better use in custom commands, and also for better integration with evil-mode, which has its own concepts to define various regions (e.g. with text objects).

even better, there should be an option to not copy but only return the formatted text, which would mean it can be used in other functions.

what do you think about this? i could come up with a pr if you agree this makes sense to have.

Output as Format does this now. This should too.