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But doesn't this work against the conception that we should be using Emacs and Org-mode to future proof ourselves.

• peterkelly 10y ago
  Yes. "But it's just text, so you can access it in any program" is an attractive (and in a sense, perfectly valid) argument, but it's the same problem with Markdown's different slightly incompatible flavours.
• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  You have zero loss of data, it's still in a future-proof plaintext file. Changes are mostly trivial. So I wouldn't say it's such a big sin against future-proofing. Improving the design vs. retaining backwards compatibility is a tradeoff.
  • drieddust 10y ago
    Yeah but I don't really understand why projects like org-mode can't provide upgrade path or keep backward compatibility.
    • gkya 10y ago
      They always provide elisp snippets that fix things up after syntax changes.