Re: Org mode MIME type

[Max Nikulin]

On 21/01/2024 22:11, Timothy wrote:
> > However shouldn’t it be “text/x-org”, not just “text/org”? (I am against
> > “application/*” variants since it is a text based format).
>
> As per <https://orgmode.org/#more> the de-facto mime type for Org is `text/org'.
>
> Why not `text/x-org'? Among other reasons, the `x-' prefix is depreciated as of 
> RFC
> 6648 (2012).

Thanks, I was not aware of this RFC.

> Existing MIME type databases that use `text/x-org' should be updated
> to use `text/org'.

It's Emacs that has text/x-org.

Out of curiosity I tried to grep local cache of the mailing list. There 
are a few attachments having text/plain, almost the same number for 
text/org and text/x-org. The most popular media type is 
application/vnd.lotus-organizer, its count roughly the sum of other 
variants.

Since Emacs has text/x-org for a decade, perhaps it is still reasonable 
to ask for an alias in shared-mime-info. Anyway it is better to remove 
dash from "Org-mode file" comment there.