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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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:314400 Archived-At: > Org format is text with its own kind of markup -- it is not plain text. Many users would disagree. If you look up promotional and educational content about Org, you'll find that cited as one of its chief benefits: that it's essentially plain text. Indeed, Org's own web site uses the slogan, "Your life in plain text." One of Org's design points is that its syntax is intended to be readable as plain text. > That is a good approach, but one detail should be different. > The variable should be sachac-news-show-org, and default to nil. That begs the question: If the same content were displayed in a non-Org, "plain text" format, what would the difference be? And if someone were to write a major mode to syntax-highlight and navigate such text, would it still be "plain text"? What makes a document "plain text" as opposed to Org, Markdown, or any of the numerous readable-as-plain-text formats out there?