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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode |
Date: | Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:22:39 -0800 |
On 11/28/2021 11:46 AM, Karl Voit wrote:
At this year's EmascsConf, I had a 12 minute video where I explain why we do need a different name for the syntax of Org-mode in contrast to the Elisp implementation of GNU/Emacs Org-mode. I would like you to read my rationale and motivate you to use the term "Orgdown" for the syntax and "Orgdown1" for the first (very basic) level of Orgdown syntax elements.
I agree that it's useful to distinguish the files/syntax from the *mode*, which contains many functions for doing things with those files.
For what it's worth (perhaps not much), I've always referred to the syntax/file format as simply "Org"; for example, "I put my notes into an Org file." This is by analogy with most of the other Emacs major modes for editing files. I write Python in `python-mode', I write C++ in `c++-mode', I write text files in `text-mode', and so on.
Maybe "Org" isn't distinct enough though. People unfamiliar with Org-Mode might confuse "Org" with "org charts" or some other use of the word. Still, if we look to other tools that can read the same files as Org-Mode, they tend to be called things like "Organice", not "Orgmodeanice". :)
- Jim
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