Re: Using backticks for the inline code delimeter?

[Timothy]

Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 01/04/2021 02:24, Sébastien Miquel wrote:
>> George Mauer writes:
>>> is there a straightforward way to extend the org parser to do this?
>> For the cosmetic part, there's this  piece of code from
>> https://archive.casouri.cat/note/2020/better-looking-verbatim-markup-in-org-mode/index.html
>
> Personally, I consider marker appearance as a minor issue. The real pain is
> that, besides thinking on content, it is necessary to concentrate which type 
> of
> plain text markup must be used at every moment. Switching between chat with
> markdown and bug tracker with a flavor of wiki markup, it requires additional
> efforts to avoid incorrect formatting. I do not mind to have backticks for 
> code
> snippets in org but unfortunately the choice was done many years ago, so such
> change is unrealistic.
>
> Remapping "`" is rather intrusive. Would not be better to define a command and
> key binding that fix markers on the current line or in the current paragraph?
>
> A strange idea. If logic were perfectly decoupled from formatting it would be
> possible to have org actions with various formats (markdown, reStructured 
> text,
> etc.) with some extensions to markup and limitations in respect to org
> functionality. I know that is unfeasible.

This whole issue is why I made
https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-everywhere and
https://github.com/tecosaur/org-pandoc-import :P

--
Timothy