Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2017)

Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by Jtsummers on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:32AM (#29266540)

Except it's not just a markup format. When connecting it to the agenda system in emacs you end up with emacs lisp snippets (easily, not always) in your org files. And that's just part of the basic usage:

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Or with org-babel you can have different blocks of code interact with and reference each other:

https://orgmode.org/manual/Environment-of-a-Code-Block.html

That's a lot more than markup at this point since you can run those inside of org-mode.

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Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by nanna on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:51AM (#29266801)

Completely agree. I think there's a continuity between the misconception of Org Mode as being just being another markup format and Emacs being just another text editor.

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Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by nybble41 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:06PM (#29272242)

Emacs is the operating system. Viper is the text editor.

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Re:Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages t... by User23 on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:03AM (#29274005)

Thanks for knocking some cobwebs off the old neural pathways. I’d totally forgotten about viper mode.

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