Work around Pandoc bug #7398

diff --git a/.mutt/markdown2html b/.mutt/markdown2html
index e0a2b19677adb121ba4dabf01df2afb8dcfce281..60e6bea16e75c20e977d2b6eba02bc47d2e615e1 100755 (executable)
--- a/.mutt/markdown2html
+++ b/.mutt/markdown2html
@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ def _preprocess_markdown(mdwn):
     # text-mode HTML2text converters, and so it's left commented for now.
     #ret = re.sub(r'\n>', r'  \n>[>]{.quotechar}', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
 
+    # With the autolink_bare_uris extension, we do not need to put links into
+    # angle brackets to have them converted, so let's conserve the brackets
+    # when used around email addresses. Note that this needs a postprocessing
+    # hack because the pandoc autolink converted includes the ambersand
+    # (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398).
+    ret = re.sub(r'<([^@]+@.+\.[^>]+)>', r'&lt;\g<1> -PANDOC_BUG_7398-&gt;', ret)
+
     return ret
 
 
@@ -277,6 +284,10 @@ def _postprocess_html(html):
     '''
     Postprocess the generated and styled HTML.
     '''
+
+    # Preprocessing leaves a sentinel to work around
+    # https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398, and so we need to remove it:
+    html = html.replace('</a> -PANDOC_BUG_7398-&gt;', '</a>&gt;')
     return html