Re: [ELPA] New package: SachaC-news

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

> 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?