On March 2, 2015 7:35:36 PM CET, Sean Farley <[email protected]> wrote: > >Thomas De Schampheleire writes: > >> Hi, >> >> The subject should be non-ambiguous but let me add a little more body >> to it: currently comments and pull request descriptions are parsed as >> RST (restructured text). From my perspective (and that of several >> others) this is counterproductive and not necessary: >> >> - when typing a comment or PR description, the fact that newlines are >> not preserved because deemed unimportant by RST is counter-intuitive >> and above all annoying >> >> - having to remember how your plain text would be parsed by RST and >> having to work around this explicitly is counterproductive. > >Yeah, I definitely agree with this. > >> - the average user does not need the features RST provides. >> >> So as far as I'm concerned, RST can be removed entirely. >> The same has been done in Unity's tree with commit >> >https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/kallithea/commits/09286e5ca064de6930d5bdefb9df6708eda19976 >> >> However, I assume that some other people will find this too harsh, so >> we can think of compromises, for example: > >Why not make RST 'just work'? i.e. if a user types plain text the >output >is plain text.
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