Re: Markdown Discord/Slack? Just a thought...

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Den ons 26 aug. 2020 10:24Marc Chantreux <eiro-fbXiWI9j2LLYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> hello people,
>
> > I was questioning, why pandoc uses an old style mailing list which is
> unable
> > to format code samples (->markdown) etc
>
> what do you mean by "format"? i read this list with the text content.
>
> so my anwser here is "freedom" (and nowadays, i'll add digital sobriety
> for ecological reasons).
>
> * you send me the data (without all those extra useless html garbage)
> * i do whatever i want with it
>   (not only reply and archive, modify, annoate, index the way *i* want
>   and i can mix with other sources)
>
> it would be hard to get the same level of productivity with a web page
>

I agree emphatically with this and the rest of what Marc said.
I have been using computers since the early eighties and email since the
early  nineties, and am still to encounter something which beats plain text
— that's why I use Pandoc!

and i can work offline without even noticing:
> * i send mails then my mta will relay it ASAP
> * i archived, annotated, indexed some posts and i use it as
>   documentation (as well as info and man pages when available)
>
> finally: using vim and mutt makes things very fast. for pandoc
> specifically: i use the vim ! operator all the time to test the code
> online and :'<,'>w ~/pandoc/samples/cool-one.md (file is created)
> when i see something interesting ... i have a bunch of scripts to
> make the things even faster.
>
> > Wouldn't it be much better also for new user, if it would support
> markdown
> > -> meaning something like slack or discord.
>
> new users can use whatever webmails they want so they are not lost?
>
> > I see lots of examples posted in this mailing list, which are hard to
> read
> > and understand mainly by the lack of formatting.
>
> again: i don't get it: i don't use webpages but hope they *at least*
> don't break the way the initial message is formated? what webmail are
> you using ?
>
> > Whats about discord or slack? or any other channel which can format
> markdown
> > ...? Maybe other users feel the same?
>
> well ... to me an active mailing list is a sine qua none to consider a
> project
> because i have no time to waste with 40 browser tabs to connect to all
> those RAM
> eaters to end up with a poor version of mutt.
>
> i learnt vim and mutt 20 years ago and i'm daily rewarded by the confort
> and the productivity i have since then (meanwhile, web people came thru
> lot of different tools to end up with poor textareas to express
> themselves. this is sad) so every abandoned or closed mailing-list (or
> nntp forum) is a tragedy to me.
>
> but maybe we should find a convention so your UA (whatever it is)
> "formats" things the way you expect? can you tell us about the way you
> read this forum?
>
> > Of course these solutions also have their disadvantages -> you need
> > channels/threads etc...
>
> mailing lists have threads too: every message that isn't a reply to
> another is a new thread.
>
> regards
> marc
>
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