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KarlVoit

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About KarlVoit

https://karl-voit.at/about/ Personal Information Management (PIM), PKM, Emacs, Org-mode, Orgdown, vim, ...

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46703270

    I beg to differ. MD did not "win". That would imply that no alternative situation would be possible any more. It's just the most popular Lightweight Markup Language (LML) at the mo…

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    Comment #46703203

    Sorry to take away your reason: https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool... There are multiple solutions where you may use orgdown (syntax) from within vim alth…

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    Comment #46577388

    My thing? ;-) My things are pretty much safe because I usually do risk analysis before I'm using new tools according to https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ The purpose of…

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    Comment #46576521

    I did and I mentioned very particular reasons and arguments. You posted an opinion. Now, I'm very curious how you came to your conclusion: was is adequate? How to you compare? Did …

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    Comment #46576498

    You statement gives me the impression that you haven't read a single paragraph from the article you're commenting on.

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    Comment #46575681

    Orgdown doesn't require Emacs either: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool... Tadaaaa! Furthermore: …

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    Comment #46575122

    One of the arguments of the article is that there is a fundamental difference: Markdown was created as a small subset of syntax elements. Therefore, there was a high demand on synt…

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    Comment #46575036

    I would ask you to read the article before writing a comment like that. The whole point of the article is that there is no Markdown. At least not a single instance from it. So when…

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    Comment #46574997

    The point of https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ and even more https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ is that I do think that orgdown has very much …

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    Comment #46574966

    I'm sorry. You're starting a totally different topic here. I tried to emphasize in my article that this is about orgdown, the syntax of Org-mode which itself is an Elisp implementa…

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    Comment #46574344

    Author of the article here: It hurts me to read through the comments. One part of the people who commented obviously didn't read the article they're commenting on. And another part…

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    Comment #42016453

    Unfortunately, "Org-mode" (or Orgmode) means two different things: (1) the lightweight markup syntax and (2) the Elisp implementation of a PIM/PKM tool within GNU Emacs. This seems…