Re: BEGIN_SRC..END_SRC

[Bastien]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Wolfgang Jenkner writes:
>  > On Mon, May 07 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Martyn Jago writes:
>  > >
>  > >  > [org-mode idioms are] plain text.
>  > >
>  > > If it gets interpreted by a program and concealed because humans
>  > > really aren't interested in it, it's not plain text, it's markup.
>  > 
>  > Except that it isn't.  Gnus article mode does not hide the #+begin_src /
>  > #+end_src markers.
>
> Surely you don't expect that to convince anybody!  The important part
> of my sentence is "humans really aren't interested in it".  And they
> aren't.  It's not part of the code, it's markup.

This markup easily reads as "This is the beginning/end of source code
written in Emacs lisp".  I think this is useful and readable information
for a human.

-- 
 Bastien