Re: "Orgdown", the new name for the syntax of Org-mode

[Jim Porter]

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