Re: [O] (no subject)

[T.F. Torrey]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. -- T.

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Terry,
>
> I hear you.  I completely agree that Org should not be less flexible
> than it has been so far.  At least not for very good reasons, shared
> by both the developers and the users.  IOW: ease of maintainance and
> code consistency should not let us introduce rigidity for the users.
>
> Let's focus on the regressions and let's try to fix the ones that we
> can fix.
>
> As discussions have shown so far, Nicolas holds the keys when it comes
> to honoring Org's consistency regarding its syntax -- the document he
> wrote will help us all to speak about the same syntax and rules.  But
> as you may have felt, I'm more on the "user conveniency" side, even if
> we need to sacrifice some consistency.  There is a balance here, and I
> hope we keep a good one.
>
> So as I said: let's focus on what you perceive as regressions wrt what
> Org allows.
>
> The subject of this thread does not fall in this category: headlines
> have always been starting with stars, there is no regression here.  On
> the contrary: a few years ago, we had no answer to this FAQ, now we
> can help users with several solution when the problem is aesthetic.
>
> Finally, I agree with Suvayu that the problem *is* mostly aesthetic,
> so the solutions we provide are enough (i.e., the FAQ, org-bullets.el
> in contrib/.)  The question is rather whether we should have an Org
> option in core to allow users to tweak the appearance of the stars:
> my answer here is "no", because I don't see why users would stop here.
> Once we offer such an option for headlines, why not for comments and
> other characters with a syntactic role?  (I replied a question on
> stackoverflow on how to use "%" instead of "#" for comments...)
>
> Anyway -- Org still stands on the side of users' freedom, let's
> fix the real regressions.
>
> Thanks!