Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Po Lu]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

>> But Elisp is not portable to a non-Emacs system (say, iPhone).  In the
>> long run, it would be better to define a "parseable" language as the
>> standard basis for Org.  From that, people can develop (parts of) Org on
>> other platforms (Vim, Beorg, Orgzly) and test/prove that they are
>> compatible with version X of the language.  I think Organice was doing
>> this, but I haven't looked at it deeply.

> This is all part of the aims and process. However, the first step is to
> develop a robust elisp based parser. This helps to ensure the org syntax
> is consistent and helps identifies ambiguities which need to be fixed as
> well as provides a reference implementation which developers can use to

It is not the goal of Emacs to support tyrant devices such as the iPhone
running proprietary operating systems such as iOS.

If people are going to refactor Org mode, I hope they will not do it
with support for iPhones in mind.