Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I was looking into the idea that we can get more help from Emacs
>> contributors if we switch the format back from .org to .texi.
>
> I'd welcome such a change, FWIW.

But how would Org benefit from it?
For good reasons or not, we have already switched to .org format.
And switching back now would require extra effort that needs to be justified.
(Even without taking into account RMS' request).

>> Having said that, RMS officially asked Org team to work towards allowing
>> Org to become the new GNU documentation standard.
>> https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87bkqx4jyg.fsf@localhost/
> ...
> 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.

Feel free to reply to RMS' email. I am sure that he had good reasons to
make the official request. I am not in position to argue on his behalf.

If you prefer, the same email is also on emacs-devel:
https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/E1ocmvz-0002iB-2M@fencepost.gnu.org/

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