[Zope3-dev] FWIW: I endorse reStructuredText

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:11:20 -0500


>>>>> "MM" == Mark McEahern <marklists@mceahern.com> writes:

    MM> As Barry pointed out, David Goodger prefers .txt.  One
    MM> advantage to using something else (e.g., '.rst') is you can
    MM> then make emacs open these files with a specific mode.  Of
    MM> course, as of now, there's probably no reStructuredText
    MM> specific mode.  But there probably one day will be.  <wink>

That might be useful, but there are other ways to add metadata to the
file to get Emacs to DTRT (e.g. -*- mode -*- lines or local
variables).

-Barry