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Hermes SMTP Server) with ESMTPA ID 731d067a6be1d8fbcbc7ee5189fbe1f2; Sun, 05 Jun 2022 11:45:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Sun, 05 Jun 2022 12:26:44 +0200") X-Mailer: WebService/1.1.20225 mail.backend.jedi.jws.acl:role.jedi.acl.token.atz.jws.hermes.yahoo Received-SPF: pass client-ip=66.163.187.148; envelope-from=luangruo@yahoo.com; helo=sonic316-22.consmr.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:290696 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > People nowadays write README.org and README.md files instead of > plain-text READMEs because the packages' repositories are hosted on > some forge (sr.ht, github, gitlab, gitea, whatever) which supports > rendering those formats in a nice way. So the choice of format is > natural for package authors. And they frequently contain markup like > headings, bullet lists, bold, italics, and code snippets which simply > look much better than their text-only alternative (even in their > editing/non-rendered versions). But that doesn't mean all documentation should take on such a format. People read their READMEs in Emacs, not on a forge. > That's true but wouldn't it be possible to extract the font-lock/faces > related parts in a separate file with no dependencies which can be > loaded quickly enough? I mean, the purpose would only be to display org > and markdown READMEs with the highlighting intended by the package > author but there's no point in enabling the gazillon of other features > (from editing to time-tracking to spreadsheet computations) those > packages might provide in addition. That wouldn't be Org mode anymore then, just an outline with some additional fontification rules.