Improve CI interface

[westurner]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Use case: Render a snippet of markdown in a file on disk into HTML.

Describe the solution you'd like

A commandline interface to parse markdown and render HTML (and optionally configure markdown-it-py first)

Describe alternatives you've considered

I could write a script with an argparse.ArgumentParser and use that; but that might as well just be a console_scripts entry_point in markdown-it-py; in which case an actual argparse.ArgumentParser is justifiied.

Additional context

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[chrisjsewell]

Heya, note there is already a CLI interface (accepts a file or starts in interactive mode):

$ markdown-it
markdown-it-py [version 0.1.0] (interactive)
Type Ctrl-D to complete input, or Ctrl-C to exit.
>>> > **hallo** there!
...
<blockquote>
<p><strong>hallo</strong> there!</p>
</blockquote>

Its not particularly well documented though, and it can't be configured, so indeed these could be improved.

See: https://github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py/blob/master/markdown_it/cli/parse.py

[westurner]

I should've looked more closely for the entry_point in setup.py.

• 📚 DOCS: Improve documentation for CLI #54 (Pending merge)
  • DOC: cli.parse: Add description and maybe also epilog with usage examples
    https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html#description
  • DOC: README.md: Include output of markdown-it -h under e.g. Usage > CLI

[westurner]

• ENH: Add output path(s)?
• ENH: Add way to do configuration
  • Discussion: INI / TOML / YAML / Python and/or lots of --args-to-test

[westurner]

• "BUG: cli.parse: return 0 for non-error" 🐛 FIX: cli.parse: return 0 for non-error #53 #55 (pending merge)

[Dobatymo]

Windows requires Ctrl-Z instead of Ctrl-D to complete input.