new api focused on enhancing existing textareas (we put Overtype into a GitHub comment extension)

[nedtwigg]

Hello! I took your Overtype library and stuffed it into a browser extension called gitcasso that puts Overtype into GitHub issues and PRs (just posted as Show HN).

We made a fork with a few changes that I bet would be easy for us to merge back upstream:

• we merged feat: support codeblock syntax highlighting #35
• we added support for GitHub-style #9 issue/pr links diffplug@f5149dc
• we added autolink for https:// text diffplug@d276bef
• we added highlighting for html tags diffplug@3e48814
  • e.g. for <img tags that GitHub generates when you drag an image into an issue, or also for <details blocks

The harder part was that Overtype is definitely designed more for creating fresh textareas instead of modifying an existing textarea which is controlled by some foreign application (the browser-extension usecase). We had to do a lot of bashing to make that part of it work.

We would definitely prefer to use just plain Overtype instead of maintaining our own fork.

• Would you be open to a PR that enforces formatting in CI using prettier (or something else)?
• Would you be open to a PR that exposes a new API to your parser which is aimed more at the "browser extension" usecase?

Whatever your answers, thanks for a great lib! We credited you (and @Yukaii) at the bottom of our readme like so:

and then also in the browser extension itself like this:

let me know if you'd like any changes :)

[panphora]

Hi @nedtwigg, thanks for the feedback and for building gitcasso!

Good news, in v2.0: The parser is exportable:
import { MarkdownParser } from 'overtype/parser'

We also merged codeblock syntax highlighting.

For GitHub-specific features and Prettier integration - these would be great additions for specialized forks, but I'm keeping the core library focused and dependency-free.

Closing as the parser export addresses the main request. Feel free to submit a PR to add a hook to enable the GitHub-specific features.

[panphora]

I did the best I could to test OverType before the v2.0 release, but please test it thoroughly and report bugs. I changed a lot and I only have so much bandwidth to test myself.