Convert HTML in place in IDE

[gazpachoking]

I think one of the only downsides with htpy is that you can't just paste html snippets from other places straight into your code. The html2htpy utility is good for that, and I thought it might be nice to have a little more IDE integration with it. Added an --output argument to write the output back to a file, as well as a --location argument to specify a row/col range within the file, and then it becomes usable as an external tool in PyCharm. (Presumably vscode has something like this too?) Is this something we think would be a good pattern? Should I clean it up and make a PR?

2025.05.29_16.20.57_pycharm64_mxYVOVavTE.mp4

My somewhat messy implementation is here https://github.com/gazpachoking/htpy/blob/in-place-html2htpy/htpy/html2htpy.py

[gazpachoking]

Oops, didn't notice the vscode extension until now. That would be nicer on pycharm side too, I just have never done one of those.

[pelme]

do you think the approach that the vs code plugin uses would work too? i.e. grabbing the selection and sending that to html2htpy? https://github.com/dunderrrrrr/vscode-html2htpy/blob/main/extension.js

@dunderrrrrr made vs code plugin, maybe he got more ideas :)

[dunderrrrrr]

I believe this can be done in pretty much the same way as the vscode-extension (without the need of modifying html2htpy). The selected text gets written to a temp file when extension is executed. html2htpy runs on that file and selected text is replaced with htpy format.

However, I have no experience in pycharm plugins since my main IDE is vscode. After some quick searching it seems like pycharm handles both clipboard/selected text formatting and pasting. So it should be possible for sure :)

[gazpachoking]

It's for sure possible, and would be a better solution. I gave a very cursory try at writing a plug-in, but haven't quite grokked the plug-in system yet. Will continue when I get another minute.