Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >   > > Block marks are usually supported well enough by these formats.  In 
the
  > >   > > case of org it would be #+BEGIN_WHATEVER end #+END_WHATEVER I 
suppose.
  > >
  > > That syntax would do the job, but they are more clumsy than the syntax
  > > used by Texinfo:  @WHATEVER and @end WHATEVER.  In order for a modified
  > > Org mode syntax to be a step up, it should look as clean as Texinfo.
  > >
  > > Might it be posisble to simplify the syntax that Org would use for
  > > this?

  > I am not convinced that it is necessary.

I won't claim it is _necessary_, but it would sure make these constructs
more convenient.

  > Doing so will either be backward-incompatible or introduce more syntax
  > constructs to Org, making the syntax more complicated.

Maybe it is ok for it to be backward-incompatible.  I don't know for
certain, but it looks like these constructs were recently added.

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