Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Bastien Guerry]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > "markdown-style" formats, on the contrary, generally support a closed
>   > set of marks that use delimited based ad-hoc syntax, such as *foo*,
>   > =foo=, "foo", `foo' and so on.
>
> The challenge is to extend Org format with an open-ended syntax that 
> could handle many different inline markup opertions.

Yes, that's the idea behind using one-char constructs for basic inline
markup (eg ~code~, /emphasis/, etc.) and two-chars constructs for more
specific inline markup (eg ~~defn~~, =~defvar~=, etc.).

-- 
 Bastien Guerry