On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:44:42AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > > Why change them? What was wrong with txt to begin with? > > In my opinion good docs matter, and one of the key things is to be able to > cross reference stuff. Well, good docs begin with useful content; and many docs lack that. Fixing that would be a much more useful thing to do. In any case, I've never had any problems with typing things like: "go read: Documentation/file.txt for more information.". Also, what text editor supports cross references at all then? With the filename I can use 'gf' in vim to open it up in a new buffer and go read that. > Another concern some core kernel folks raised is that the .rst markup was > too heavy-handed, and makes the text much harder to read. Christoph called > it "cat spew". That can be fixed with a much lighter-handed conversion > (and 2nd patch iteration was acceptable for Christoph). Very much agreed, once a file is no longer readable with less or the text editor of your choice, it as good doesn't exist at all. So I very much worry about RST even supporting such heavy markup that the end result is unreadable. Basically, if a file isn't usable from within a 'normal' text editor, it doesn't exist. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
