Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode

Post by andreareina » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 6:02 AM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #115

gandalfgeek wrote: post #108

Whenever there's an Emacs thread on HN, I want to post the following quote from Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line": "It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it only edits straight ASCII text files, which is to say, no fonts, no boldface, no underlining. In other words, the engineer-hours that, in the case of Microsoft Word, were devo…

> emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars What makes Emacs genuinely great? Not that it was built a long time ago and withstood the test of time. Not the fact that it is absolutely free to use, distribute and extend. Not that it doesn't have tons of bugs (it does), or has superb support for every known programming language (it does not). To understa…

Post by preek » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 6:07 AM UTC

platz wrote: post #60

Unfortunately, org-mode is only a portable format if you stick to bare-bones org-mode; if you start using any of the "power-features" unique to org-mode you're stuck. And if you restrict yourself to markdown-compatibilty, why not just write in markdown?

Post by ngcc_hk » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 6:20 AM UTC

komali2 wrote: post #72

svnpenn wrote: post #37

Does anyone know of a small Emacs distribution? I would like to get into Emacs, but its hard to justify 114 MB: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-26 Versus Vim 18 MB: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases

I don't know of a "small" Emacs distribution. You can have Vim in Emacs with Evil Mode. IMO Emacs bindings are terrible no matter what and modal editing saved my career from an early death by wrist injury. But on top of Vim bindings you also get an entire, programmable IDE. I guess it's kinda big but like, so are most IDEs? But you can get many features at a lighter weight than other ones. Like yea if literally the o…

Post by jfkebwjsbx » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 6:37 AM UTC

iLemming wrote: post #118

jfkebwjsbx wrote: post #98

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> Markdown is not consistent across the platforms that support it. That is not true anymore. CommonMark is the formal spec everyone follows now, including most major sites out there. > If I wake you up at 3AM would you remember the format of links? is it parentheses first or brackets? Well, yes. Markdown is super easy to remember. > LaTeX support. I can write some complex math formulas. On top of CommonMark you can a…

> That is not true anymore. GFM, ExtraMark, MultiMarkdown, MarkdownExtra, Gitlab, Taiga, Showdown, Markua, CommonMark, RMarkdown, etc., etc. I can promise you, there will be more flavors and extensions in the next 20 years. And if I'm still alive then and we don't invent anything drastically different from keyboard input, I'd probably still be using Org-mode. Among thousands of others.

Post by tasuki » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 6:57 AM UTC

smichel17 wrote: post #97

thom wrote: post #45

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Emacs is an enormous investment but every time I'm forced to use another editor or IDE I'm reminded how much it pays off. Fundamentally, all Emacs does is treat the whole world as text. Everything from that point forward is about giving you (or allowing you to build) tools to manipulate text in a way that is natural and powerful for you. This doesn't sound particularly earth-shaking, but it really is. Think of a lang…

> snarky sidebar, sorry: every editor and IDE has really good Vim key bindings, but terrible Emacs support. I used to feel bad about this until I realised it was a sign that Vim people clearly didn't use Vim that much, whereas Emacs people never leave Emacs [vim user] Usually I don't get baited by the holy war, but this one got me good, well played. I don't use other editors much, but my experience with them has been…