From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 11:29:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfoby54v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee038ipt.fsf@gmx.de> <87o7z61v59.fsf@gmail.com> <87bkv527p5.fsf@gmail.com> <835yld93w7.fsf@gnu.org> <877d5t0yrn.fsf@gmail.com> <87r140yuof.fsf@gmail.com> <875yl9e7zm.fsf@gmail.com> <83czfh12kp.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmjhghu2.fsf@localhost> <835yl910gp.fsf@gnu.org> <87wndndbhq.fsf@gmail.com> <83bkuzznws.fsf@gnu.org> <875yl7y6fc.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1770"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yantar92@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 11 10:32:55 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwYA-0000Kk-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:32:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33990 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwY9-0000FA-IO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwVN-0006cs-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwVL-0005qk-G9; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:29:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Ltj2SBCfZsKmWPA25zYsXCkrCfW+bMfE+8QaGfD4PhI=; b=qJl2gNtsBeB5 +YIghXqsjFF7zhxlyOKoV4nVJDu64ioH3DI0ndRt0hQwQZFj3b34kKdCeRAhA2hw1439AGtPUFoQf ZhOSLX05fyjFAh609nGIGpLYZ8rE4LFZgkOanmSyW3Av+x5hITh9o8Zf/eEnA2amg194jCZ5MNPpZ /qA5UUqg9FEECwMZ6L3S7FXJ6JiQVBkWRF/KuyvNq2w9PsiWfVZmCwBWTJX3hlgOxMCOKW+1YCcS4 PWjF0jCt8Geo9I9xpJ2ft0FyDmYuCc3quY/TwUDiYNo1HWiR7QRSsbSuTmIkf6Hi75uqnHyMhRsJ9 LDfrBscLYiKqS0wWrysNQw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2094 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzwVK-0007Mp-F8; Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:29:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875yl7y6fc.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:59:46 +1000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:291024 Archived-At: > From: Tim Cross > Cc: yantar92@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:59:46 +1000 > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> My statement is simply waht it says. I am not convinced org mode would > >> be the right solution for Emacs documentation. This is for many reasons, > >> some relating to org, some relating to the fact I'm not convinced there > >> is a need to replace texinfo, especially given that in some areas, I > >> think texinfo is more feature rich and consistent and some relating to the feeling I have > >> that the result is hard to justify given the amount of work it would > >> require. > > > > Well, it is hard to say anything intelligent without knowing those > > "many reasons". > > > > And if your POV is shared by the Org developers, then I ask again: why > > is the Org manual, which weighs in at 23,000 lines, is being written > > in Org? > > I have never claimed my POV was that of the org developers, I've never > claimed to be an org developer or to speak in any way for org > developers. I didn't say you have. The above question was aimed at the Org developers, as should be obvious from the context; apologies if that wasn't clear enough.