Re: Suggestion: Put C-h N (news) in org-mode

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Subject line pretty much says it all --
>> Old-style outline mode is suboptimal compared to org-mode --
>> and worse, launching C-h N and trying outline-based
>> nav fails.
>
> I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but I'd like to hear some more
> concrete reasons why the difference would be good (and why for those
> particular files).

Another good reason would be to be able to publish etc/NEWS as a 
HTML file.  This is probably more convenient than reading the plain
file from the bzr/git tree.

> E.g. an alternative is to move some of Org's functionality into Outline,
> or even make outline-mode into an alias for org-mode.

The latter seems useful, but we need to trim org.el first, so that
loading it does not take too long.

-- 
 Bastien