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From: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: interoperability matters Re: (no subject)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 23:15:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130308221506.GD15904@boo.workgroup> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4jpk4mp.fsf@lapcat.tftorrey.com>

Hi T.F.,
* T.F. Torrey <tftorrey@tftorrey.com> [08. Mar. 2013]:
> Plain text is great because I can do whatever I want.  What I come up
> with might not work correctly in other tools (or anything at all), but I
> have the freedom to do interesting things, and to have my files look
> just the way I want them to.

One argument against changing the headlne marker was
interoperability: Share org files with others, use other tools to
manipulate org files.  Interoperability is a product of
rules/formats/protocols.

Email is a plain text protocol too, but some headers are required
for interoperability.  It wouldn't make sense for instance for me
to use my freedom to create/change headers arbitrary, "and to
have my emails look just the way I want them to".  E.g. to use
german words Betreff, Datum, An, Von instead of Subject, Date,
To, From, only because I can --> no mail transport agent would
handle this plain text file.

Regards, Gregor

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 20:37 [RFC] Org syntax (draft) Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-07 20:47 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-07 22:07 ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-08 10:04 ` Bastien
2013-03-08 10:39 ` was: " Andreas Röhler
2013-03-08 10:46   ` (no subject) Bastien
2013-03-08 10:59     ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-08 11:05       ` Bastien
2013-03-08 11:18         ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-08 11:23           ` Bastien
2013-03-08 13:00             ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-08 13:12               ` Bastien
2013-03-08 15:22                 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-08 15:40                   ` Bastien
2013-03-08 20:39                     ` T.F. Torrey
2013-03-08 21:19                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-08 21:57                         ` Suvayu Ali
2013-03-08 22:15                       ` Gregor Zattler [this message]
2013-03-09 14:09                       ` Bastien
2013-03-10 22:40                         ` T.F. Torrey
2013-03-08 13:25 ` [RFC] Org syntax (draft) François Pinard
2013-03-08 15:23 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-03-08 22:06   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-09 10:52     ` Waldemar Quevedo
2013-03-09 14:23       ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-09 14:42         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-09 15:05           ` Carsten Dominik
2013-03-15 20:22       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-17 18:48       ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-05 17:01       ` Bastien
2013-03-13 14:07     ` Nicolas Richard
2013-03-15 20:39       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-09 23:16 ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-09 23:49   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-10  4:35     ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-10  7:08       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-03-10 10:14         ` Bastien
2013-03-10 10:16           ` Bastien
2013-03-10 13:07             ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-10 14:11               ` Bastien
2013-03-10 16:02                 ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-10 16:09                   ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-10 17:12                     ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-10 21:44                       ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2013-03-10 15:44           ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 16:58             ` Eric S Fraga
2013-03-14 18:26               ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 18:51                 ` David Engster
2013-03-14 19:03                   ` [Out-of-Thread] " Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 19:15                     ` David Engster
2013-03-14 19:23                       ` Jambunathan K
2013-03-14 19:29                         ` David Engster
2013-03-14 19:52                           ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-09 16:37           ` Bastien
2013-03-17  7:18 ` Achim Gratz
2013-03-17  9:36   ` Sebastien Vauban

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