Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown

Re:Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown by broodbucket on Sunday February 23, 2025 @04:56PM (#43153591)

I think you'd benefit of having some more real-world-ish examples in the README, as someone who doesn't intuit what I'd want to use this for.

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Re:Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown by iJohnDoe on Sunday February 23, 2025 @07:03PM (#43154465)

Agreed. At least 5 examples of output shown being used against a standard markdown document.

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Re:Show HN: Jq-Like Tool for Markdown by yshavit on Sunday February 23, 2025 @09:38PM (#43155309)

That's a great idea, thanks! I'll do that tomorrow or so.

As a preview, two specific cases I've seen:

1) In PRs, some companies like to have semi-structured metadata, like a link to a related ticket under a heading "Ticket". In mdq, you could find that using `# Ticket | [](^https://issues.acme.com/)`

2) Many projects ask people who submit bugs to check off whether they've searched for existing bugs. `- [x] I've looked in the bug tracker for existing bugs`

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