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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question on nested-blocks syntax
Date: Sun, 08 May 2016 15:52:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg9cac8s.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1ox210x.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Sat, 07 May 2016 20:09:18 +0200")

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
>
>> I sympathize with aesthetics concerns, Org syntax, particularly blocks,
>> is "massive", but I think this is not a sufficient motivation here.
>
> I wonder what you mean by "massive" here?  Do you mean the fact that there
> is an explicit beginning and end?

I mean that, visually, it can be a bit invasive, at times.

> Aside: I think a big getting rid of the FORTRAN-70 "touch" (capitalized
> keywords and delimiters) would make Org must more ascetically pleasing.
> (We’d just need to change default usage of templates and block
> capitalization).

I guess we could do that. 

However, I think it is already easy to write every keyword as lower
case. Moreover, there is no lower case for "#".


Regards,

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-08 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-06  9:20 Question on nested-blocks syntax Albert Krewinkel
2016-05-06 10:06 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-06 10:27   ` Albert Krewinkel
2016-05-06 12:01     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-07 18:09       ` Rasmus
2016-05-08 13:52         ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-05-08 21:22           ` Rasmus

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