Re: Org mode and Emacs

[David Masterson]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> But could it be moved in that direction? (ie. Organice)
>>>
>>> I don't think so. It is motivated by the fundamental Org syntax design,
>>> AFAIU. (mostly by first match wins design). We are not going to change
>>> fundamentals of the Org syntax. It will break backward compatibility.
>>
>> Could Org be moved toward a "well-defined" grammar that could be
>> separated from the Emacs implementation to allow other systems (iOS,
>> Android, Windows) to implement (at least part of) a "standard" Org?
>> Could the backward compatibility be covered by an Emacs library where
>> necessary? 
>
> Yes. See https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html
> I hope it is well-defined enough for you.
> I don't think that we need major changes to allow implementation in
> other systems. There is already a number of existing third-party parsers
> for Org:
>
> https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser
> https://github.com/tgbugs/laundry
> https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org
> https://github.com/tecosaur/Org.jl

Excellent!

-- 
David Masterson