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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Flexible plain list bullets
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:38:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762cuttei.fsf@altern.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F90E3DC.1040901@kli.org> (Mark E. Shoulson's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:19:40 -0400")

Hi Mark,

I agree with Nicolas that a solution based on overlays would be better.

I also agree with you that there are many areas where we let the users
modify the content of Org files in a way that makes them unparsable in 
a systematic manner.

This is always a trade-off: user flexibility vs a rigid syntax.

On top of this trade-off there are many other one to consider, based 
on what are the available human (benevolent) resources to maintain Org.

I try to prioritize things this way:

1. fix current bugs
2. improve syntax stability (against current state of flexibility)
3. extend current features
4. integrate new features

Sometimes, a request raises a discussion somewhere between (3) and
(2) -- which is precisely the discussion we have now.  But pointing 
at failure in the current syntactic ground does not help promoting
a feature request at (3) :)  

Also, Nicolas is working on a generic parser which will be the 
base for future decision on (2), and (consequently) on (3).  

So yes, this is complicate.  We have many users.  And an overlay 
based solution will *not* be a temporary fix, it will be something
that any user can enjoy.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-19  1:24 Flexible plain list bullets Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-19  8:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-04-19  9:40   ` suvayu ali
2012-04-19 10:01     ` Carsten Dominik
2012-04-20  4:19       ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-20  5:58         ` Jambunathan K
2012-04-20 13:38         ` Bastien [this message]
2012-04-20 22:18           ` Mark E. Shoulson
2012-04-20 22:35             ` Bastien
2012-04-22 13:43               ` Mike McLean
2012-04-20 14:51         ` Carsten Dominik

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