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Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode
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Michael Ashton |
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Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode |
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Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:33:03 -0800 |
> On Nov 28, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/28/2021 11:46 AM, Karl Voit wrote:
>> At this year's EmascsConf, I had a 12 minute video where I explain why
>> we do need a different name for the syntax of Org-mode in contrast to
>> the Elisp implementation of GNU/Emacs Org-mode.
>> I would like you to read my rationale and motivate you to use the term
>> "Orgdown" for the syntax and "Orgdown1" for the first (very basic)
>> level of Orgdown syntax elements.
>
> I agree that it's useful to distinguish the files/syntax from the *mode*,
> which contains many functions for doing things with those files.
>
> For what it's worth (perhaps not much), I've always referred to the
> syntax/file format as simply "Org"; for example, "I put my notes into an Org
> file." This is by analogy with most of the other Emacs major modes for
> editing files. I write Python in `python-mode', I write C++ in `c++-mode', I
> write text files in `text-mode', and so on.
>
> Maybe "Org" isn't distinct enough though. People unfamiliar with Org-Mode
> might confuse "Org" with "org charts" or some other use of the word. Still,
> if we look to other tools that can read the same files as Org-Mode, they tend
> to be called things like "Organice", not "Orgmodeanice". :)
Perhaps orgtext or org-text?
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, (continued)
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Tim Cross, 2021/11/28
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Karl Voit, 2021/11/29
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Matt Price, 2021/11/29
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, M . ‘quintus’ Gülker, 2021/11/29
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Marcin Borkowski, 2021/11/30
- Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis (was: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode), Karl Voit, 2021/11/30
- Re: Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis (was: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode), Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, 2021/11/30
- Re: Orgdown: negative feedback & attempt of a root-cause analysis (was: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode), Eduardo Ochs, 2021/11/30
Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Jim Porter, 2021/11/28
- Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode,
Michael Ashton <=
Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode, Samuel Wales, 2021/11/30