Re: NEWS file format

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi Bruno,

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2018-01-11 23:02:02 +0100]:
>
> 1) This outline format is ill-conceived for reading without special
> tool support. Namely, the subsubsections stand out brighter than the
> sections.

This is pretty common, cf. markdown.

> 2) What Emacs and vim do with these files, does not matter. The user
> will want to view the NEWS file, not edit it.

"view" calls vim.
emacs has "view" mode too.

> ("firefox /usr/share/doc/clisp/NEWS")

markdown is widely supported.

However, this is not important enough for me to argue any further.
At any rate, please do not introduce any new idiosyncratic markup there
as you did recently.

Thanks.

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