Kill RST

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Andrew Shadura <andrew at shadura.me> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:35:36 -0800
> Sean Farley
> <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > - 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.
>
> I think we need to:
>
> i) switch to some flavour of Markdown by default
> ii) let users choose the format of every comment they add: plain text,
> md, rst
>
> We can't detect the markup effectively because both rst and md *are*
> plain text (well, md more so).
>

I'm fine with this approach, but I'd like to either see
- plain text being the default in the comment handling, or
- allow the user to set this as a personal preference

Best regards,
Thomas