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I've used org-mode with inline code a few times now, and it is terribly expressive and useful when you want to show reports with "live" results in them, etc. T
by stevekemp 8y ago
I've used org-mode with inline code a few times now, and it is terribly expressive and useful when you want to show reports with "live" results in them, etc.
That said when it came to formatting my Emacs init file, with descriptions, and justifications, I chose to use markdown:
https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md
Markdown allows text, and code, to be mixed, and while there is no inline expansion support or other neat features it is minimal enough that it was painless to write and process.
- bauerd 8y agoThe love Emacs config files tend to get never ceases to amaze me :-)
- kqr 8y agoI find they tend to look somewhat like what you'd expect to see from a file that's the combination of RC scripts for an OS and configuration files for all applications inside it...
- antt 8y agoI've been using org and emacs for 5 years now and I never thought of using it to actually comment what my .emacs file was doing. This is a brilliant idea I feel very stupid for not having thought of myself.
- celeritascelery 8y agoCurious why you choose markdown over org, especially for an emacs init file?
- stevekemp 8y agoI spend a lot of my time writing markdown, much more than I do interacting with org-mode, so it felt more natural. Org-mode I tend to only really use for dynamic things. (i.e. "Reports" or tutorials which contain ebedded code rendered output.) Markdown seems like it is easier to demonstrate to other people - and doesn't really require introducing orgmode (which is worth learning, and which does have excellent documentation of its own).