Can't run Multiple Lexers

[martindale]

This is a (non-functional) example of what I was attempting:

var lexers = {
    chat: new marked.InlineLexer([], {sanitize: true, smartypants:true, gfm:true})
  , content: new marked.Lexer({sanitize: true, smartypants:true, gfm:true})
};
// disable images, but allow links
lexers.chat.rules.link = /^\[((?:\[[^\]]*\]|[^\]]|\](?=[^\[]*\]))*)\]\(\s*<?([^\s]*?)>?(?:\s+['"]([\s\S]*?)['"])?\s*\)/;

Unfortunately, the Lexer and InlineLexer classes don't behave the same way, so...

var lexers = {
    chat: new marked.InlineLexer([], {sanitize: true, smartypants:true, gfm:true})
  , content: marked
};
// disable images, but allow links
lexers.chat.rules.link = /^\[((?:\[[^\]]*\]|[^\]]|\](?=[^\[]*\]))*)\]\(\s*<?([^\s]*?)>?(?:\s+['"]([\s\S]*?)['"])?\s*\)/;

Should work, by exposing lexer.content( ) as a direct mapping to the non-inline Marked parser. Unfortunately, it doesn't -- the editing of the InlineLexer via changing the rules also impacts the second marked function.

As a workaround, I attempted:

var otherMarked = require('marked');
var lexers = {
    chat: new eval(marked.InlineLexer)([], {sanitize: true, smartypants:true, gfm:true})
  , content: otherMarked
};
// disable images, but allow links
lexers.chat.rules.link = /^\[((?:\[[^\]]*\]|[^\]]|\](?=[^\[]*\]))*)\]\(\s*<?([^\s]*?)>?(?:\s+['"]([\s\S]*?)['"])?\s*\)/;

...to no avail. Perhaps we should unify the lexer structures and/or standardize how they are exposed?

[joshbruce]

Closing as stale. Please see #956 and please re-submit if you are still using and marked and the defect is still present.