From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:00:09 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87lhmlncb1.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205193643.GB5067@thyrsus.com> <83egsd3kyi.fsf@gnu.org> <871toapbh9.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83ppbuxgxx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418065238 20607 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 19:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:00:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 20:00:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3Xn-0006Sz-Oq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:00:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3Xn-0003WT-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:00:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3Xf-0003WD-EV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:00:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3XZ-0007eT-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:00:19 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3XZ-0007eE-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:00:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy3XX-0006JI-IS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:00:11 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no ([84.208.248.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:00:11 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:00:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.248.210.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k2za1uYnh6ZCvTv3XjO2jGnu3Dg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179447 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov : > FWIW, org-mode is all right but Yet Another Format. I think it > wouldn't be an improvement over texinfo for user adoption. Asciidoc, > Docutils, or Markdown seem much better if we want to make > contributions easy. Well, I've seen org-mode attract users to emacs who otherwise wouldn't have used emacs (the same way auc-tex attracted LaTeX users to emacs back in the late 80-ies, early 90-ies). (Personally I don't see the big need for replacing Texinfo, but if there is, I think that in an emacs setting, org has an advantage over the other formats mentioned)