Re: [POLL] Should we accept breaking changes to get rid of Org libraries that perform side effects when loading?

[Bastien Guerry]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

>> I see.  So not only inline tasks are ugly syntactic-wise, but they
>> also have a specific behavior when exporting.  All this pleas for an
>> external module, not for something we support in Org's core IMHO.
>
> I do not think that it would be possible. In order to support
> inlinetasks in agenda/sparse trees/todo setting/tag setting, we need to
> modify the internals. I see no way around that.

Maybe we are miscommunicating: my suggestion is to _remove_
lisp/org-inlinetask.el from Org's core.

> Too many aspects of Org are designed for one specific heading syntax.
> Even modifying inlinetask *****... syntax will likely require adding
> more special support where things "magically" work for now because
> inlinetasks often look the same as headings.

And that's part of the confusion: inline tasks _look like_ normal
tasks while behaving differently.

-- 
 Bastien Guerry