> On Nov 28, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Jim Porter <jporterb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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". :)
Perhaps orgtext or org-text?
