Re: extension of markdown files

If you feel that filename extensions should be within scope, please speak up.


regards

On 20 November 2012 04:10, Pablo Olmos de Aguilera C.
<pablo@glatelier.org> wrote:
> On 19 November 2012 22:07, Brandon Frohs <bfrohs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com> wrote:
>>> Usually I have seen the current extension used for Markdown files:
>>>
>>> .md
>>> .mdown
>>> .markdown
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
>>> I have seen .mkd as well.
>>
>> It should be noted .md, .markdown, and .mkd are recognized in Ubuntu
>> 12.10 as "Markdown document (text/x-markdown)" (.mdown is *not*
>> recognized).
>
> There was another thread just talking about document content. In my
> experience, most used extensions (in order of frequency):
>
> .md
> .markdown
> .mkd
>
> (First time I see .mdown)
>
> Considering afaik, most platforms already understand those three as
> "markdown" documents (github, ubuntu for example). Maybe we should
> stay with them. Or remove one (3 extensions seems a bit too much).
>
> Regards,
> --
> Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX
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>



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