[ramrunner0xff]

amazing mind-link. i have also built a similar program (also called shite) only centered around plan9's rc shell and ndb, to manage my shite ;) (my use case is building a gemini+html output page with date/tag navigation from mostly plain text + minimal markdown in the form of tags and links).

https://git.2f30.org/shite/files.html

[adityaathalye]

plan9! Some day I'll try it out. Such a nicely integrated system. As an emacs user, I cracked up at the manpage for Emacs in plan9. Hilarious!

> https://git.2f30.org/shite/files.html

So I looked at the templating code. Have you considered here documents for templating? Being able to declare complete HTML fragments is a big advantage for debugging parts, and keeping overall HTML valid. I author HTML fragments in an HTML-mode buffer and get linting etc. to make sure my markup is OK. Then I can just copy-paste it back into the heredoc.

Another thing I did was to use functions as wrappers for each HTML fragment, so that I could define guarantees in the scope of the HTML (any variable / field that must be present or must be of a certain type).

[ramrunner0xff]

I haven't really, because the only place where i needed valid html generated mostly by the program is on the navbar , the taglist etc. the main docu is kinda plaintext on a div when rendering html. But i will go back and investigate your idea since it would be elegant and rc supports normal here documents. for example

  ed $3 <<EOF
  g/$1/s//$2/g
  w
  EOF

changes all occurrences of $1 to $2 in file $3. :)