How I would have done Gemini differently

Published June 8, 2025.

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If you don’t have nitpicks about what gemtext supports (or, more likely, doesn’t support) you haven’t written much in it.

With that in mind, I’d have tweaked the following if I were the Gemini BFDL:

• Six levels of headings, not three. Occasionally I want to publish a single document with a deep structure.
• - as the list marker, not *. It’s easier to type.
• Mandatory space after all one-line-only marker types (#, >, =>, -) for uniformity. This also preserves the quoting/greentext-arrow distinction, and, for the hastag-inclined, makes it so one can have those at the beginning of a line without shenanigans.
• Triple-backtick block has the alt text on the ending triple backtick, not the start. The start text is for conveying how to do syntax coloring.

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