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A comment on Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018). Parent comment

Re:Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by cfv on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:08AM (#19623497)
Commonmark (https://commonmark.org) exists, has a fairly well defined standard, and the reference implementations are not hard to reason about. They are part of several thousands of larger codebases right now, too.

Org-mode on the other hand is basically an emacs thing that has never been seen in the wild outside maybe as a pandoc input? Which is coincidentally another tool I almost never actually use by itself. And I have literally no idea how ota reference implementation works or on which languages could I embed it and how.

I'm pretty sure my experience isn't that rare too.

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Re:Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by AlexCoventry on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:32AM (#19624426)
> an emacs thing that has never been seen in the wild outside maybe as a pandoc input

There are a couple of vim plugins. I don't know whether they're any good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/4ms4z0/org_mode_which_...

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Re:Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by bachmeier on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:42PM (#19628080)
> Commonmark (https://commonmark.org) exists, has a fairly well defined standard

Commonmark didn't really accomplish much in terms of standardization. The problem is that they didn't take seriously comments that they didn't support everything they needed to support in order for it to be a standard. The most prominent example is support for math, which is extremely common. That wouldn't be so bad if there were support to escape processing, but they weren't willing to support that either.

The response is to tell anyone that they need to look for an implementation with the proper extensions for equations or whatever you might need that's not currently supported. There's not much to be gained from having a standard if it doesn't ensure document compatibility among competing implementations. Commonmark is nothing but yet another version of markdown.

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