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: Org mode and Emacs Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83msyemjx8.fsf@gnu.org> <871qfpoij6.fsf@gnu.org> <87fs45ivyo.fsf@localhost> 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="38889"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jemarch@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, bzg@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 27 03:33:03 2023 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 1qa4eF-0009rN-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:33:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qa4dh-0006u6-CM; Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qa4dg-0006rc-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qa4df-000270-Qz; Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:27 -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=9mT0n/zAPbwnCRJQPKcfLZMyF8djI/azIUIQnaywLjQ=; b=RCXo2NOR9lHd X3t98iuAN+6hGwXvt5v6b+nOWLmHT82hKDipQYoirpWujTTGhNwCMJqCZqBj0LKNs4GEUNkNwrifZ bdI1kOK+BNVImu0RfgPN9aVcKl8jhiIhiq7Cb3fEmTN23DYkkeOXCpR6XEmPH/KUiCxwcDiOjETOc SXk1KZRxGepw4xdc8V6pIZCxMLCeSEiedtnnVSQY9yJEfRO1hfcxWykOpSWI8YiLERmR5IjfYRkfu aB+6Whkl8XxVA3Fun96HtAJzdc2EuAWAz/dKiXeVgu2ct+c3pSlCBdfMif8WRlmkGfzOSJr4jWNpJ QA/Az80o1+s0f3Jd1FHc1Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qa4df-0001Eb-GD; Sat, 26 Aug 2023 21:32:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fs45ivyo.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:56:15 +0000) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309290 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. ]]] > > Block marks are usually supported well enough by these formats. In the > > case of org it would be #+BEGIN_WHATEVER end #+END_WHATEVER I suppose. That syntax would do the job, but they are more clumsy than the syntax used by Texinfo: @WHATEVER and @end WHATEVER. In order for a modified Org mode syntax to be a step up, it should look as clean as Texinfo. Might it be posisble to simplify the syntax that Org would use for this? -- 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)