On 11/28/2021 11:46 AM, Karl Voit wrote:
At this year's EmascsConf, I had a 12 minute video where I explain why
we do need a different name for the syntax of Org-mode in contrast to
the Elisp implementation of GNU/Emacs Org-mode.
I would like you to read my rationale and motivate you to use the term
"Orgdown" for the syntax and "Orgdown1" for the first (very basic)
level of Orgdown syntax elements.
I agree that it's useful to distinguish the files/syntax from the
*mode*, which contains many functions for doing things with those files.
For what it's worth (perhaps not much), I've always referred to the
syntax/file format as simply "Org"; for example, "I put my notes into an
Org file." This is by analogy with most of the other Emacs major modes
for editing files. I write Python in `python-mode', I write C++ in
`c++-mode', I write text files in `text-mode', and so on.
Maybe "Org" isn't distinct enough though. People unfamiliar with
Org-Mode might confuse "Org" with "org charts" or some other use of the
word. Still, if we look to other tools that can read the same files as
Org-Mode, they tend to be called things like "Organice", not
"Orgmodeanice". :)
- Jim