Re: [PATCH 10/57] docs: device-mapper: convert it to ReST format

Jonathan Corbet
2019-04-16T17:27:27Z

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:48:59 -0400
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Think the last piece I'm missing is: how does one edit a .rst document
> without having to know to sprinkle syntactic sugar around? Does emacs
> have a ReST mode? If not what client interface are people using to
> properly change these documents?

There is an RST mode for Emacs, yes. But you likely don't really need
it. RST is a simple format and, in general, we try to keep the markup to
a minimum so that the plain-text files remain as readable as possible.
Most of our documents are 99% RST before anybody gets around to formally
converting them.

> (apologies if this is all spelled out nicely in Documentation/
> somewhere, but please help this man learn to fish).

Basics in Documentation/doc-guide (or
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/index.html). There's
also some history and overview in:

https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/

Thanks,

jon