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Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode


From: Michael Ashton
Subject: Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode
Date: 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?




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