Re: [PATCH 0/5] Convert AsciiDoc files to .adoc extension

> As mentioned in a recent thread, our use of the .txt extension for
> AsciiDoc files prevents most editors from recognizing these files as
> AsciiDoc automatically.  There isn't an editor-independent way to
> override this, so many contributors miss out on syntax highlighting,
> linting functionality, and other editor niceties unless they manually
> override the detection when editing.
> 
> In addition, many forges produce rich (HTML) renderings of AsciiDoc and
> other text formats automatically, but this doesn't happen with plain
> .txt files.