From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:37:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee038ipt.fsf@gmx.de> <87o7z61v59.fsf@gmail.com> <87ilpbzlq5.fsf@gmail.com> <87sfoawp1u.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37039"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 14 00:39:36 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 1o0sid-0009NS-Lv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:39:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0sic-0003dd-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0sga-0001eG-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0sga-0004fh-4w; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:37:28 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=eyVrOxlx4DqEPevhLeVWbPLiJdYcK1IHs0H1A223S9M=; b=fXpF4hvLFkEu 89uag//60KK7yYDf2bdqQv3VN0hrH/gFxmpFoOpBgx85zmrUu17eNVYdptrzcq57Ysfzj8p0SFKJY HY5IWcJ7EgU7REtg1etY496yb1rHQw6zNBS8ckKd8XFFTwrqEsRrP4yphPtADYGZhiPn6mBIydvPI b7qDtQRpW0bTAqwXiYRULVTbakiJ3lkaB6t7p9SFpf/gPhhufOcQBhvS4FzMAgW4tVd54yowUrjlh 4Y7MQ9drcffEpV1t0QfXZsvvFlroXzVp48NgVM2kb2OkL2wdeN/3A2xwESi8gSzE7kElA+PY7QVJM bOzhqVkDJzNb3Pk6EHrI5w==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0sgZ-0000pd-Aj; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:37:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:41:19 +0300) 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:291156 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I did not. I speak of understanding of package descriptions. When user > clicks on a package within Emacs that user expects package > description, not a markup. > It is totally irrelevant for user if markup and tags, properties are > plain text in the context of editors. The idea of adding markup to text is that a program will read that marked-up text and output text which is nicely formatted. The marked-up text is harder to read, but the markup effects in the output make it easier to read. If we use markup in some text, we shouldn't normally show users that marked-up source text; we should normally show users the result of processing the markup. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)