From: M Hickford <mirth.hickford@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:55:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Convert AsciiDoc files to .adoc extension
Message-ID: <f38cbccd-00d1-47a5-a891-817003785c7d@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250120015603.1980991-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On 2025-01-20 01:55, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 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.

Fantastic. New contributors often start with documentation changes. 
Let's make it as easy as we can for them.