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.
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.
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!
Reminds me very strongly of a simpler (and in my opinion more elegant) notation that I have been using for a long time:
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/collaboration_made_simple_wi...