Split qmd from Rmd on GitHub (linguist)

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Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

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Split qmd from Rmd on GitHub (linguist) #7437

Open mcanouil opened 9 months ago

mcanouil commented 9 months ago

Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/7173

^{Originally posted by **eitsupi** October 8, 2023} ### Description GitHub has recognized `qmd` as an alternative name for RMarkdown for two years (Since github-linguist/linguist#5518), but considering the spread of `qmd` and the newly introduced syntax since then, I think it would be better to separate it and make `qmd` independent Quarto Markdown.

cscheid commented 5 months ago

I'm not convinced that the added disruption is worth it, but I could be persuaded.

mcanouil commented 5 months ago

The benefits is mostly for AI and in general for Quarto documents discoverability. Right now, Quarto is not distinguishable from Rmarkdown for users and AI such as Copilot on GitHub.

Also Quarto is already very different from rmarkdown so the question is why state they are alike on GitHub?