Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> > I'd welcome such a change, FWIW.
>> 
>> But how would Org benefit from it?
>
> I explained that below this part in my email.

I thought that you were referring to RMS' request.

>  I don't know why Richard made that request.  From my POV, switching
>  from Texinfo to _any_ significantly different markup has the
>  significant disadvantage that people who routinely improve our manuals
>  will have to learn a new language, and that will likely lower their
>  motivation.

>  For better and for worse, Texinfo is our documentation system.  It is
>  a good system, and is actively developed (version 7.1 will be released
>  soon), so abandoning it for something that is less familiar to those
>  who take care of the documentation is a net loss, IMO.  We have enough
>  real problems on our hands to afford inventing new ones.

This may be true in general, but not for Org development.
People contributing to the Org manual are expected to understand Org
markup. So, it is Texinfo that becomes the new language to learn and
that creates an extra contribution barrier.

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