Re: BEGIN_SRC..END_SRC

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Lennart.

On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 May 2012 07:35:29 -0700 "Drew Adams" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > DA> We discourage the use of HTML messages in GNU mailing lists.  But then
> > DA> Gnus/Org/Emacs goes and rolls its own simulacrum?  And then everyone 
> > who is not
> > DA> using Emacs for mail has the obligatory privilege of seeing the
> > DA> markup?

> > Yup.

> Free software is dependent on standard, or??

> > DA> (Note: I would have no problem with the GNU mailing lists NOT 
> > discouraging HTML
> > DA> messages.  My point is that we should not (a) discourage HTML and then 
> > (b) bring
> > DA> in some artisanal, Emacs-specific markup through the back door.  HTML 
> > and XML at
> > DA> least provide (more or less) standard markup that is supported by many 
> > clients.)

> > Nope.

> Which commonly used mail clients (outside of Emacs) does not support html 
> today?

mutt.  At least, not without dreary configuration.

I'm all for keeping HTML strictly out of GNU list messages.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).