Re: BEGIN_SRC..END_SRC

[Stefan Monnier]

SM> 2- it does make the code harder to read.
SM> Separators like "---------------------" work much better in this
SM> respect, because they don't contain words and so they're much more
SM> easily abstracted away by your "eyes".

> The problem with those separators is just that they say nothing about
> the contents, so the presenter (MUA) has to guess the content type,
> which requires some parsing and can easily result in a wrong guess.

That can be fixed without making the whole thing illegible.
E.g.

-------------------------------------------------------- emacs-lisp
(defun sm-foo ()
  (try that))
--------------------------------------------------------

This said, I find

   (defun sm-foo ()
     (try that))

to be a lot more legible anyway, even without any fancy coloring.
If we want to get more fancy, then I think MIME is a good solution.


        Stefan