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From: Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>
Subject: Re: text color + highlight
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:22:46 +0530
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Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

>     Eric> but again, I'm reticent to commit to any particular format, as
>     Eric> Org-mode does a good job of feeling consistent, and I'd not
>     Eric> want to hurt that consistency.
>
> In an edit buffer, I would personally prefer to see the colour 'red'
> visually rather than as a 'synctactic element'.
>
> May be Org mode could be enhanced to honour (and coexist with) enriched
> mode markups.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Requesting-Formatted-Text.html#Requesting-Formatted-Text

I think the very beauty of Org-Mode is that it manipulates pure
plain-text.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul