Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

>> It also takes a relatively long time to load Org mode, so opening a
>> README.org-type file for the first time will always cause an annoying
>> pause.
>
> That's true but wouldn't it be possible to extract the font-lock/faces
> related parts in a separate file with no dependencies which can be
> loaded quickly enough?  I mean, the purpose would only be to display org
> and markdown READMEs with the highlighting intended by the package
> author but there's no point in enabling the gazillon of other features
> (from editing to time-tracking to spreadsheet computations) those
> packages might provide in addition.

We, Org devs, are working on modularizing Org.
Currently, extracting fontification is not trivial because it depends on
most of Org being loaded.

If everything goes as planned (famous last words), fontification will
only require Org parser and Org fontification library.

Best,
Ihor