File Extension Consensus

[Allan Odgaard]

On 5 Nov 2010, at 10:18, Jan Erik Moström wrote:


> I don't think you can get Gruber to "bless" an extension.


Indeed — this has come up before. Gruber used ‘.text’ at that time.  
One suggestion I liked was ‘.mtext’ since it stresses the readability  
of the file.

I use ‘.mdown’ myself — I’d prefer ‘.md’ if it wasn’t for the  
ambiguity/clashes.