It occurs to me that the emacs-averse can still use emacs as a backend (emacsclient/(server-start)) so they can edit org-mode text in their favorite editor and

It occurs to me that the emacs-averse can still use emacs as a backend (emacsclient/(server-start)) so they can edit org-mode text in their favorite editor and then process it with emacs magic. Also, I bet this trick would work (maybe) for formatting comments or introducing ASCII wireframes with tools mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745. (For the ASCII art, maybe an extra hop through emacs isn't necessary.)