On 3 August 2012 14:40, Konstantin Khomoutov <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:19:01 +0200 > Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Why markdown and not one of the dozens of other wiki syntaxes? >> > >> > Because markdown is a very popular one, used by github, and we have >> > on board the creator of a major implementation (the one used by >> > github, iirc). >> >> The others are also very popular. >> >> Github has a cute logo but I would not turn to it when looking for >> sound technical solutions. > Stackoverflow and all the sites under its umbrella, and all the sites > using this engine, use (modified) markdown syntax [1], [2].
So again a somewhat slightly incompatible variation. And there are many using moinmoin or similar syntax, and many using bbcode, and there are probably others in wide use already. > > I, for one, while not being a special fan of markdown syntax (to me, the > best sytnax I ever had to deal with was that used by wiki.tcl.tk), still > think that the proliferation of wiki markups place everyone in position > where one just can pick a syntax to use almost at random. And for fossil it has been picked already. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
