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[Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Your assumption is right, my code is in verbatim text. Having the 
option to have headings transferred to comments would be great, but 
unfortunately I know less then a bit of python. But even the option to 
copy/paste without any format would be great. I just start all my 
headings with a hash, so when copied to my code editor, they are 
commented automatically.

By the way, the headings level 3 and below are already copied with hash 
tags in front, like e.g., below:

Heading level 1
===============
This is a test

Heading level 2
---------------
This is a test

### Heading level 3
This is a test

#### Heading level 4
This is a test

So it seems it is already partially implemented :-)

Cheers,

Paulo

p.s. if I may sneak in an idea for plugin, what about the other way 
around, a function that converts code (plain text) to verbatim text and 
commented text (all lines starting with a hash for example) to a 
headings? Perhaps different heading levels depending on the number of 
hash tags. Just an idea :-)




On Fri 29 Mar 2013 10:50:17 AM CET, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Paulo van Breugel
> <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For me a clean text copy/paste option would be great. I keep a record of R
> > and shell scripting code in zim. I use headings to structure the code in
> > ZIM. This works great, except that often I want to copy some code from a Zim
> > page to my text editor and I would prefer not to have to remove all the
> > heading format code.
>
> My first thought is that the headings in the wiki page should probably
> transfer to comments in the code. And I assume the actual code in the
> zim page is formatted as blocks of verbatim text.
>
> Continuing that thought you could even define a special copy-paste
> format that turns all normal text into comments and only leaves
> verbatim blocks as normal text.
>
> Does this make sense for your use case, or am I assuming to much about
> how you use it ?
>
> ( Only complexity would be the different comment styles. Probably you
> would need a variant that uses "#" for comments and one that uses "//"
> for comments. )
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap