"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_...@web.de> writes:
> George Mauer <gma...@gmail.com> writes: >> - lists with dashes, org supports that just fine > > or stars (not possible with org) or plus (in org). > >> *bold text* with stars, again org already does this > > Note that this does not match markdown: Markdown uses *emphasis* and > **strong**. > >> `backtick code`, org doesn't handle this and actually uses the tilde as a >> delimeter which is extra jarring since its a strikethrough in many chat apps > > tilde or equals. > > - list > *bold* > =code= > > Adding more syntax is a slippery slope, because then `foo` can never be > used for anything else, and there is a limited amount of usable syntax > elements. > Yes, I think this is potentially a bad idea. Org parsing is already slow enough without adding yet more syntax and font-locking complexity. I also suspect this is not as simple as just adding this to org parsing - all backends and many contributed packages would likely also need to be updated to understand the new syntax. So probably not a trivial change and a change which is likely to have real impact wrt backwards compatibility. Part of the issue here is that there is no markdown 'standard'. There are a number of markdown 'flavors' or dialects. Org is just another one (and one of the older ones at that). -- Tim Cross