Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 12:36:43 +0200
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Unless I misunderstand what you mean by "Org syntax", I don't 
> > think
> > users who want to create documents with Org should be required 
> > to know
> > that syntax.  Instead, there should be commands to help them 
> > produce
> > correctly formatted snippets.  Compare that with Texinfo 
> > commands
> > which produce the various syntactic elements of the language.
> 
> Yes, there are usually helper functions to do just that, though for
> some things, it's easier to just type the markup directly.
> (`*bold*` is IMHO quicker than `C-c C-x C-f * bold C-f`.) But once I
> know how to create a heading in a text document I can use the same
> command to create a heading in a notes file or an agenda file.

Command efficiency aside, if such commands exists, then why would the
user need to know the Org syntax which they produce?