Kill RST

[Sean Farley]

Thomas De Schampheleire writes:

> Hi,
>
> The subject should be non-ambiguous but let me add a little more body
> to it: currently comments and pull request descriptions are parsed as
> RST (restructured text). From my perspective (and that of several
> others) this is counterproductive and not necessary:
>
> - when typing a comment or PR description, the fact that newlines are
> not preserved because deemed unimportant by RST is counter-intuitive
> and above all annoying
>
> - having to remember how your plain text would be parsed by RST and
> having to work around this explicitly is counterproductive.

Yeah, I definitely agree with this.

> - the average user does not need the features RST provides.
>
> So as far as I'm concerned, RST can be removed entirely.
> The same has been done in Unity's tree with commit
> https://bitbucket.org/Unity-Technologies/kallithea/commits/09286e5ca064de6930d5bdefb9df6708eda19976
>
> However, I assume that some other people will find this too harsh, so
> we can think of compromises, for example:

Why not make RST 'just work'? i.e. if a user types plain text the output
is plain text.