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From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: cnngimenez@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: SachaC-news
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:13:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2293a6a-8a1a-4da2-9f7a-72809cee66b4@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1rJmGc-0008PF-5L@fencepost.gnu.org>

> 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?



  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-31 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-12 19:32 [ELPA] New package: SachaC-news Christian
2023-11-14  2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-15 23:56   ` Björn Bidar
2023-11-14  2:56 ` Richard Stallman
2023-11-18 20:26   ` Christian
2023-11-21 16:07     ` Sacha Chua
2023-11-25 22:40       ` Christian
2023-12-31  3:13     ` Richard Stallman
2023-12-31 18:13       ` Adam Porter [this message]
2023-12-31 19:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-31 21:36           ` Adam Porter
2023-12-31 22:33             ` Christopher Dimech
2023-12-31 22:57             ` Emanuel Berg
2024-01-01 12:01             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-02  3:19         ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-02  5:08           ` Emanuel Berg
2024-01-04  4:01             ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-02 18:05         ` Christian
2024-01-02  0:04       ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-05  4:23         ` Richard Stallman
2024-01-02 17:40       ` Christian Gimenez
2023-11-17  7:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-18 20:30   ` Christian
2023-11-18 21:10     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-11-25 22:07       ` Christian
2023-11-25 22:50         ` Philip Kaludercic

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