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Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package |
Date: |
Sun, 5 Jun 2022 14:24:57 +0000 |
Hello, Stefan.
On Sun, Jun 05, 2022 at 09:39:13 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-06-05 13:29:28] wrote:
> > Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> >> So the choice of format is natural for package authors. And they
> >> frequently contain markup like headings, bullet lists, bold, italics,
> >> and code snippets which simply look much better than their text-only
> >> alternative (even in their editing/non-rendered versions).
> > I think most of the hostility non-Org users have towards Org files is
> > the experience of opening one, only seeing a couple of lines with "..."
> > after them and then going "AAARGH", killing the buffer, and using
> > `find-file-literally' on it.
> There's also the annoying delay, of course (as in "oh, so it takes
> a long time to load in order to then mess it up!?")
> We should take these as challenges to improve org-mode rather than as
> reasons to stay away from it.
We should not inflict org mode on random Emacs users, e.g. by making it
necessary in order to use *Help* fully.
Org mode is a complicated, difficult to learn package which cannot be to
everybody's taste. To see just how complicated and difficult to learn
it is, have a look at the Key index in org.info. There are 784 entries
in that Key index. That is surely more key bindings than I know and use
in total. A massive number of these are bindings which don't start with
C-c C-<letter>. Many of these will most assuredly clash with other
bindings users have set up.
Don't get me wrong, I've no objection to people liking and using a
package like org mode. Where I draw the line is when I am myself forced
to use it as part of accessing some unrelated feature.
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, (continued)
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tassilo Horn, 2022/06/06
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/08
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/06
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/06
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/08
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package,
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- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/05
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/06/06
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/07
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/06/24
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/06/24