Supporting multi-line input without changing the specification

On 23/02/2021 11:56, Sandra Snan wrote:
> avr wrote:
>> a client that allows for normal edits but translates those into sed
>> commands when updating the page
> 
> These kinds of suggestions are along the line of having a client that
> supports translating *asterisks* to emphasis, translating <font
> family="foo"> to a specific font family, and so on.
> 
> There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing that kind of thing at
> any moment and if it's gets traction it'll get traction. We're in a
> similar situation as what broke the pre-standards web.
> 
> There's not a lot me or anyone else can do about that so I don't worry
> too much about it??
> 
> However, for sending text I recommend email.
> 
> Here's an idea for how a wiki in a world where spam didn't exist could
> work:
> 
> You send email to an address. The text of the page at the path that
> matches the subject of that email is then set to the body of the email.
> 
> Whether that subject is "nice/orderly/unixy/path" or "Completely bonkers
> with spaces that'll need to get percent-encoded and trunced to match the
> 1024 limit."
> 
> If people want to edit they can paste the old text into their new email.
> 
> This is just from the top of my head and not something I'd put into
> production any time soon.
> 

there is nothing preventing users to publish markdown files instead
of gemini files. On gemini, it's not mandatory to have everything as 
gemtext which would be reducing Gemini potential.

Like it is often done in gopher, people can have gemtext files as menus 
with their texts files in markdown that could be opened with a nice 
markdown viewer program, and links with gemini:// scheme from the 
markdown file would be opened using the gemini client. That would be 
like using opening a PDF from a website and clicking on a link in the PDF :)

The workflow may not seem optimal but it's perfectly doable with the 
current state of the protocol.

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