just personal opinion but i wouldn't want org's syntax to get more heterogeneous and non-orthogonal/non-factored.
i could see room for an orthogonal/factored flexible syntax, like "parsing risk" and "extensible syntax" threads on this ml. this would be the one syntax to rule them all, /vaguely/ similar to how you can do stuff with cl's parser.... ...which here would require user-definability so that the user can specify that $[emphasis :type 'code :hide t :marker ?`] shows as `. the general idea would be desirable if new syntax is needed, but if it is only used for this purpose it would imo be overkill*n. On 3/31/21, Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "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 > > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html