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org 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 andreareina 8y ago
org 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).