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Org format is great, but the designs of many of its more advanced features rely heavily on the Emacs editor's ability to collapse metadata. Once you've built a
by serhei 9y ago
Org format is great, but the designs of many of its more advanced features rely heavily on the Emacs editor's ability to collapse metadata. Once you've built a file that uses drawers, tags, some spreadsheets, and several levels of nesting, the resulting file can be too cluttered with metadata to be easily understandable in other plaintext editors.
- coldtea 9y agoNot using those other editors is an added benefit.
- chongli 9y agoNot unless you work alone. When you work with other people, it's important to use a common format for the benefit of the group. Trying to force other people to use emacs won't win you any friends.
- abritinthebay 9y agoUsing emacs is a giant drawback however.
- ferdterguson 9y agoIf you are more of a vim person and don't like emacs modifier keys, I suggest checking out spacemacs.
- abritinthebay 9y agoOh no, I'd rather use a modern editor. Both are cults that need to die.
- taeric 9y agoMeh. Most of the metadata is actually not that hard to understand in source form. Though, I think this is a valid concern (and I hate that). It is just similar to how people used to have markup in their documents to see what they were typing, but people are lured by anything that hides this markup. See, nobody actually likes typing \bold{hello} instead of just highlighting and bolding. More, people just want the markup to be hidden. Orgmode shines not because it hides anything. But because it made a very coherent set of macros to type the markup that I want to use. That and source blocks. (Ok, mainly source blocks.)
- type0 9y ago> the resulting file can be too cluttered with metadata to be easily understandable in other plaintext editors. This is basically why I switched to Asciidoc. And if you need to collaborate with others you can point to different editors that people can use, there is even AsciidocFX which is made specifically for new users.