Re: [ELPA] New package: SachaC-news

[Björn Bidar]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>
>   > I want to propose SachaC-news (or sachac-news.el if you like)
>   > package to be included in ELPA. Its objective is to check for
>   > Sacha Chua's news repository periodically, and to show the Org
>   > file if there is a new commit with a new post in it.
>
> What other formats does this repository store postings in?  If it has
> -- or can generate -- plain text, that should be preferred.
> There are users who like Org fornat, but it is not Emacs's preferred
> way of showing information,

The base text file might be in org-mode but org-mode can export to plain
text e.g. ANSI or UTF-8. Despite that I consider org-mode text quite
easy to read even for those that don't understand org, especially inside
Emacs.