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Really cool project! I'm a heavy org-mode user but one of the disappointing aspects of org-mode is that non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to docum
by agentultra 9y ago
Really cool project!
I'm a heavy org-mode user but one of the disappointing aspects of org-mode is that non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents; especially if I use advanced features like org-babel, spreadsheets, and the like.
I hold out hope that one day there will be a standalone org-mode editor for non-emacs users.
Folding Text seems to have many of the same features... I might have to check it out. :)
- hsitz 9y agoWhat do you mean "non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents"? I would be surprised if FT has more than, say, 10% of the features of org-mode. If you want to restrict yourself to the basics (e.g., the 10% that FT does) then org-mode is quite simple to use. Of course, org-mode is in Emacs, and that will turn some people away. For others, the flexibility and power of Emacs may be the main draw. I myself am someone who migrated to Emacs from Vim, primarily because of org-mode, and I now use the Evil vim emulator, which makes things quite good.
- agentultra 9y ago> What do you mean "non-emacs users have a tough time contributing to documents"? If I use org-mode files for anything more than markup such as org-babel, ditaa, properties, spreadsheets, scheduling, etc it requires all of the org-mode baggage that only exists in emacs but is what makes org-mode more useful than markdown. But even some of the more advanced org-mode features have to be manually managed if you're trying to contribute to an org-document project and are using something other than Emacs.