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  > As markdown is good readable as plain text as well _and_ it is kind of 
  > an industry standard - why not actually suggesting markdown as *default* 
  > _text file_ format in GNU with an option to use plaintext if wanted?

Because that would require every package to be changed and every
maintainer to learn markdown format.  It would not make any great
improvement -- just a minor improvement for users that set their editors
to display markdown files as formetted.


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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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