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Split qmd from Rmd on GitHub (linguist)

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Since Nov 9, 2023.

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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.

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