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: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:07:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83tu8hmbjq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sfoaurqk.fsf@gnu.org> <87tu8mv79u.fsf@localhost> <83czfart19.fsf@gnu.org> <87v8szrfz6.fsf@localhost> <83ilozpzce.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnde1rqh.fsf@yahoo.com> <87a6aa2oty.fsf@gnus.org> <87pmj63qs0.fsf@gmail.com> <87a6a91kze.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735g1pfan.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13539"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 19 08:08:12 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 1o2o6U-0003NY-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 08:08:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42220 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2o6T-0007Hv-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2o5i-0006ag-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2o5i-00056T-A1; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:07:22 -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=i4vpGhC5zKp35fWeoolRvxf+TNdm4xCyQiQkaa5ZkPc=; b=pasw+1Bc/+Z0 /6ijtiBdVGDQpKENhI48pRXXEsK+9EMs7plwmffJRlV85giAP0ttWN9bTSVz7nlGDD3H/RFRfZg4e hKcp/ZsRyCfuOF+2nYGXLC164sSYa9eJnOJNP0Rvfj5HP8sINjjAQx3qPo4m5FZbKoqS0SZCbj1Re OpPt8kEou6C0ic+XjPWl0/NLDBkhE7bYo9UHPQQPAdceMXqrvrbK3WC8LH2XlxhHwkLFjwVTTMplu X9tW/HN0K2GUoVGGZghiFsvxP4h/YQiIWZJvBtVxScPKkTda9beWRLEuPZTjGULr9KW7+mTuUu3Gu xT0YQSo5TRuUMGTzBj5l7Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3906 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 1o2o5h-0000Uq-LA; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:07:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8735g1pfan.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:08:56 +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:291404 Archived-At: > From: Tim Cross > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:08:56 +1000 > > > 4 spaces at the start. > > which is fine for basic markdown where all you need is to delineate the > block. However, org has much more functionality than that for source > blocks and many options and/or arguments that can be passed into such > blocks. All of which makes using just indentation inadequate. Doesn't HTML express all of those adequately? Then sending HTML email is a much better alternative, IMO, as it will allow much more MUAs to produce a readable and clear display of the email.