Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by fluffything on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:21AM
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I'm a researcher, and I have a git repository for my notes, which I edit using markdown. It supports latex math, tables, cross links, labels, and html if I need to do anything fancy, like inserting images, videos, etc. (youtube embedded video? no problem). I can edit them from any device, and they get sync'ed everywhere via git.
I can also read them from everywhere, and markdown renders super nicely.
I take markdown over org-mode everyday. I used to use org-mode 15 years ago, but today that's pointless for me.
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by panzerklein on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:51AM
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Can you elaborate, please? How do you use latex, images and cross-links in markdown?
Re:Making Emacs Popular Again
by fluffything on Friday May 08, 2020 @02:24PM
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As others have mentioned:
* $$2^n$$ for latex, renders fine on all browsers
* ![]() for images
* []() for links, including cross-links
** The link syntax is [<text to link>](<link path>), so for example [this is a link](http://google.com)
** Markdown ## Headers have an anchor with their name (e.g. `#Headers`), so you can cross-reference any other
section of any other note in the git repo by just using [see this section](./path/to/other/note.md#that-section)
cross-links is supported by some editing tools. (For example I use MacDown it does that.) It is not part of the MD spec. I do not use org-mode, but I know it well enough to admit it is unbeatable.
Thanks for specifying this and confirming my observations. My experience has been that Emacs users are much more likely than users of other text editors to be researchers and other avid note-takers who do care about tools like Org mode. For example, I have a personal knowledge base that includes several thousand Org files containing my notes.
It's not a coincidence that the creator of Org mode is an astronomy professor[1]; whereas, the majority of the most popular VS Code extensions[2] that aren't from Microsoft seem to have been created by web developers whose portfolios include no research or non-web code repos.
My point isn't to disparage the users of VS Code, but to point out that a tool like Org mode is unlikely to be developed for editors like VS Code or appreciated by the users of such editors.
When TextMate was the flavor of the month editor that its users (web developers?) claimed was the best editor ever, I waited for an "Org mode for TextMate". It never happened.
Afterwards, when Sublime Text was the flavor of the month that its users (web developers?) claimed was the best editor ever, I waited for an "Org mode for Sublime Text". It never happened.
Now that VS Code is the flavor of month, I'm waiting for an "Org mode for VS Code". But all I've seen is an unmaintained extension[3] that provides roughly 1-2% of the features of Org mode[4].
[1] https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/c.dominik/
[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&ca...
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....
[4] https://orgmode.org/org.html