CLI tool to edit google docs using markdown - granular edits via diff / apply based workflow

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Countless tools exist to create a google doc from markdown. A few tools exist to edit google docs - but they are very limited. Either they replace the entire google doc - losing comments, formatting, images, colours or anything else that you added that markdown doesn't support. Or they are so limited that they only allow find-and-replace, or perhaps limited operations. The core problem is that google docs' only provides a single API called batchUpdate. This is really painful to use - because the