Kill RST

[Sean Farley]

Thomas De Schampheleire writes:

> On March 2, 2015 7:35:36 PM CET, Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
> How do you distinguish plain text from RST?

How do other projects do this? Trac, Redmine, etc. all have some fancy
formatting that seems to work-ish?