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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

(Sorry, I may have sent this twice.)

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> In this specific paragraph, I was referring to file:, id:, help:, and
> https: links.

So you were talking about these?

[[http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html][How to record executable notes with 
eev - and how to play them back]]

Then I posit that it's trivial to get to a speedy 90% solution for these.

Anyway, for the people that say we should convert README.org files to
"text" and display that -- that's not a very satisfactory solution.  To
take an arbitrary README.org -- the one in eev.  The text version starts
off with:

---
  The best introductions to eev are:

  - "[How to record executable notes with eev - and how to play them
    back]": my talk at the EmacsConf 2019. Executable notes are mostly
    made of [sexp hyperlinks] and [eepitch blocks]. This talk has a
    quick explanation of sexp hyperlinks at [slides 5 and 6], a mention
---

which looks OK, but all those []'s are links, so you get a block down
below that's like:

---
[How to record executable notes with eev - and how to play them back]
<http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html>

[sexp hyperlinks]
<http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#3>

[eepitch blocks]
<http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#6>
---

Which isn't very nice.  It should be displayed as:

With clickable links and all.

I suspect that we can get there with not all that much effort if
somebody's interested in just doing the work.

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