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To me this sounds like Org Mode in Emacs, except that it's editor-agnostic while still being runnable. I haven't used it, but I'm intrigued. Can someone who's f
by acobster 8y ago
To me this sounds like Org Mode in Emacs, except that it's editor-agnostic while still being runnable. I haven't used it, but I'm intrigued. Can someone who's familiar with Org Mode tell me if this is a fair comparison? I think Org Mode has a wider scope, but some of the same benefits.
- andreareina 8y agoorg mode is much more evolved than this. That does mean that it's less lightweight and requires the use of emacs, but I honestly think that org mode (and magit) by themselves are reasons to use emacs, even if just for those packages. Features of org mode that I use: * Full editor support for the language you're writing -- syntax highlighting, structural editing, etc * On-line evaluation of code blocks, with the results appearing after said code block * Threading of data through multiple code blocks -- I can perform an SQL query and transparently pass the result to gnuplot for visualization -- emacs takes care of translating the intermediate data between formats * Full noweb-style tangling of source and many more.
- lilactown 8y agoI do wish there was a more standalone way to interact with org-mode files. Being the lone Emacs user on a team feels like I lose a lot of the power of org files. I would love to write our tasks / build config out in org-mode, but running that on someone elses machine w/o Emacs, CI, etc. seems not highly supported.
- andreareina 8y agoI think the easiest answer to that is to ship a stripped-down emacs that starts in org mode, probably with keys remapped to the "standard" set (`C-a` for select all, etc).