(OT) Re: Unity ROCKS!!!

[Isaac Hummel]

On 05/03/2011 07:42 PM, Albert Wagner wrote:
> There was a name once for such plain text markup, but I forgot what it 
> was.  It even worked better by dropping the indicator characters once 
> the "quoted" text was appropriately highlighted.
>

They are called Lightweight Markup Languages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

Of the ones listed on Wikipedia, Thunderbird's enhanced plaintext 
features most closely match Emacs' Org-mode, but they don't implement 
nearly all of it.

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