fix indentation in pre in preview

Again, this is a dodgy hack: replace spaces with dot with the color
exactly like the background, because otherwise ST ignores it, even in
pre

MarkdownLivePreview.py

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ class MarkdownLivePreviewListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
             resources
         )
 
-        # print(html)
+        print(repr(html))
 
         self.phantom_sets[markdown_view.id()].update([
             sublime.Phantom(sublime.Region(0), html, sublime.LAYOUT_BLOCK,

live-testing/test.md

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ what the hell...
 
 ```python
 import this
-# you should try this
+
+if input("answer yes") != 'yes':
+	print("Really?")
 ```
 
 this flickering is really annoying...

markdown2html.py

@@ -64,15 +64,17 @@ def markdown2html(markdown, basepath, re_render, resources):
 
     # FIXME: how do tables look? should we use ascii tables?
 
-    # FIXME: pre aren't handled by ST3. The require manual adjustment
-
-    br = soup.new_tag('br')
+    # pre aren't handled by ST3. The require manual adjustment
     for pre_element in soup.find_all('pre'):
         # select the first child, <code>
         code_element = next(pre_element.children)
-        # FIXME: this line sucks, but can we do better?
-        code_element.replace_with(
-            bs4.BeautifulSoup(str(code_element).replace('\n', '<br>'), "html.parser"))
+
+        # FIXME: this method sucks, but can we do better?
+        fixed_pre = str(code_element) \
+            .replace('\n', '<br>')\
+            .replace(' ', '<i class="space">.</i>')
+
+        code_element.replace_with(bs4.BeautifulSoup(fixed_pre, "html.parser"))
 
     # FIXME: highlight the code using Sublime's syntax
 

resources/stylesheet.css

@@ -38,3 +38,6 @@ pre code {
     padding: 0;
 }
 
+i.space {
+    color: var(--very-light-bg);
+}