Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > > Block marks are usually supported well enough by these formats.  In the
>   > > case of org it would be #+BEGIN_WHATEVER end #+END_WHATEVER I suppose.
>
> That syntax would do the job, but they are more clumsy than the syntax
> used by Texinfo:  @WHATEVER and @end WHATEVER.  In order for a modified
> Org mode syntax to be a step up, it should look as clean as Texinfo.
>
> Might it be posisble to simplify the syntax that Org would use for
> this?

I am not convinced that it is necessary.
Doing so will either be backward-incompatible or introduce more syntax
constructs to Org, making the syntax more complicated.

And I do not find the current syntax "clumsy".

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