What about adding aliases?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 18:25 John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps, if we were starting from scratch. But changing this now would cause too much pain in the ecosystem.

> On Sep 30, 2022, at 4:22 AM, lucabal...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <lucabalsanelli-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   one of the most difficult things for me in using pandoc is to learn extensions and remember their names.
>
> I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to rename some of them differently. In particular it would be useful to reverse their names, for example:
>
> + simple_tables -> tables_simple
> + multiline_tables -> tables_multiline
> + grid_tables -> tables_grid
> + pipe_tables -> tables_pipe
>
> so for example, the output of `pandoc --list-extensions=markdown` would be
>
> ```
> [OMISSIS]
> +table_captions
> +tables_multiline
> +tables_pipe
> +tables_simple
> [OMISSIS]
> ```
>
> and so on for many other. I know this may break things in scripts, but it would simplify the use of extensions a lot in my opinion.
>
> Thanks,
> Luca
>
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