Re: FR: source code

[Ed Hirgelt <ehirgelt@gmail.com>]

On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Eddward DeVilla wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2008 8:03 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
>> BTW, we had a discussion earlier with Carsten on whether the #+BEGIN*
>> directives formed a consistent class.  I suggested to distinguish
>> between #+BEGIN_[export_language] and #+BEGIN_[type_of_region].  I
>> further suggested that we could have:
>>
>> #+IF_HTML / #+ENDIF_HTML
>> #+IF_LaTeX / #+ENDIF_LaTeX
>> #+IF_TXT / #+ENDIF_TXT
>>
>> and
>>
>> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE / #+END_EXAMPLE
>> #+BEGIN myblock
>>
>> But maybe we shouldn't be the strict about the semantic, at least  
>> not at
>> the cost of simplicity.
>>
>> What people think?
>
> Being someone who uses org-mode primarily for the appearance in the
> org-buffer while I'm editing and using org, I really do not like this.
> It may format nicely after export, but it looks ugly in the buffer.

I definite agree with that.  I, too, primarily use org-mode for the  
way things
look in Emacs.  I occasionally export but my main use is within emacs.

Thanks,
Ed