Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:29:02 +0000
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I was hoping to see that same smoothness with Org mode -- that you
> > specify the contents and Org mode owuld give youa manual with that
> > contents.  But instead, it seems that Org mode for a manual would
> > specify Texinfo text to "export", and Org would generate Texinfo source
> > to export which Texinfo could then convert convert into manuals as output.
> 
> I think I need to clarify. This is how export to info works _now_.
> However, nothing stops us from implementing direct export org->info
> without intermediate org->texi step. Someone just needs to do this job.

Unless the implementation will somehow invoke texi2any under the hood,
this would mean a separate implementation of texi2any in Emacs Lisp,
something that I don't recommend: it will need to play a constant
catchup game with the Texinfo development, and it will be probably
quite slow.