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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:290777 Archived-At: Tim Cross writes: > Michael Albinus writes: > >> >> I have no problem if there are structured README.org or README.md files >> in parallel. But a README file should be plain text. >> > > I've seen this mentioned multiple times in this thread and it doesn't > make sense to me. > > Org files *are* plain text. This is one of (perhaps the biggest) selling > points for org mode. They don't use any form of 'binary' data and can be > read just fine in any text editor or just using cat/less/more whatever. > They may look a little *ugly*, especially with respect to URLs, but are > still quite readable - a lot more readable than other plain text formats > such as xml or html or json etc. I have consult installed, and if I want to read the package summary generated by C-h P, I half of the buffer is just Org configuration: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+title: consult.el - Consulting completing-read #+author: Daniel Mendler #+language: en #+export_file_name: consult.texi #+texinfo_dir_category: Emacs misc features #+texinfo_dir_title: Consult: (consult). #+texinfo_dir_desc: Useful commands built on completing-read. #+html: GNU Emacs #+html: GNU ELPA #+html: GNU-devel ELPA #+html: MELPA #+html: MELPA Stable * Introduction :properties: :description: Why Consult? :end: #+cindex: introduction --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- While plain text, it is not what I am interested in at this point.