Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Don't panic, Alan! 😁
>
> The idea would be to only activate the font-lock rules of org (or 
> markdown-mode, if available) while somehow protecting the package headers and 
> help-mode footer section (i.e., the buttons).

But I don't like that idea.  I don't think that's a really good idea,
since the *Help* buffer is not for only describe-package, its for all
purposes.  I think converting Org (or Markdown or whatever) to plain
text should solve most (if not all) of the problems.  Then showing that
file shouldn't need any special treatment at all.

>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
> 04.06.2022 16:18:21 Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
>
>> Hello, Tassilo.
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 15:32:10 +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>> 
>>> Hi Akib,
>> 
>>>> Packages on ELPA or NonGNU ELPA with README.org show pretty
>>>> description both with describe-package and web browser.  But after
>>>> installing a package, describe-package shows the Org source code,
>>>> which contains many useless things (I mean useless for showing in the
>>>> *Help* buffer).
>> 
>>>> Isn't it possible to convert README.org to plain text README while
>>>> compiling the package, possibly optionally?  Changing package--compile
>>>> function should do the job.
>> 
>>> An alternative would be to enable (parts of) org-mode in the *Help*
>>> buffer.  I've just tried `M-x describe-package RET corfu RET` which
>>> comes with a README.org and then enabling org-mode in the *Help* buffer.
>>> That looked really nice and didn't seem to cause bad effects except that
>>> the [back] / [forward] buttons stopped working.
>> 
>> No, no, no, no!  Org mode is a highly complicated, obscure mode which is
>> NOT part of core Emacs, and mustn't become so.  What you're proposing is
>> a slippery slope, where ever greater portions of org mode would get
>> pushed into the core, causing ever greater problems for those who do not
>> use org mode.
>> 
>> You pointed out one such problem yourself, org mode key bindings will
>> take up key binding space currently used by other modes and by users.
>> 
>> Surely the solution has got to be to encourage package authors to write
>> plain text (or .texi) documentation, by pointing out the difficulties
>> the non-standard .org format creates.
>> 
>>> Bye,
>>> Tassilo
>> 

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Akib Azmain Turja

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