Critic Markup: Plain-Text Editing Markup for Humans

Reminds me very strongly of a simpler (and in my opinion more elegant) notation that I have been using for a long time:<p><a href="http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/collaboration_made_simple_with_bracket_notation/" rel="nofollow">http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/collaboration_made_simple_wi...</a>

Unfortunately this will make it very annoying to read. The examples look pleasant because it is a small amount of text with color coding. When you have a lot of text with a lot of corrections displayed in a regular text editor this will get very very crowded.<p>Why not use existing tools like diff?

So here's a first stab at a Vim plugin for Critic Markup, forked out of tpope's markdown as to be a superset. For now it's just the basic add/delete/substitute. I'll add comments, highlighting and jumping to each change to accept/reject up next.<p><a href="https://github.com/goldfeld/criticmarkup-vim" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/goldfeld/criticmarkup-vim</a>

Great idea. I had been thinking about something like this for a few weeks, very timely! Would you guys welcome a third-party Vim plugin to your toolkit?

Isn't version control better?

"Humans", as in "regular people" use Word for this, if they're at all familiar with the more advanced features. Which a lot of people aren't. Something like this might be useful for LiberWriter, but I'm 100% certain that our users would find it more confusing than helpful.

It's interesting although I do wonder how we can get the masses to learn and start using something like this. I know it looks trivial to you and I but don't under estimate how not tech-savvy most people are.

This would be very useful for marking up LaTeX sources - could have done with this for my thesis

seem like a good idea, do the markup allow nesting, eg commenting on a previous addition?

I would love to see syntax high lighting and eventually support for this in org-mode....

Seems like a nice way to collaboratively contribute to a chunk of text via email!

Nice idea. It seems pretty easy to understand. Where is the emacs mode?

I have to add this to my text editor project!