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You don't need Emacs in order to work on org-mode documents, in the end it's just a text file. I write all my org documents in Vim and then convert them via Pan
by alpaca128 8y ago
You don't need Emacs in order to work on org-mode documents, in the end it's just a text file.
I write all my org documents in Vim and then convert them via Pandoc or with a keybinding making Emacs convert it in batch mode. It's barely different than working with Markdown, it just offers much more.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoYou don't need Emacs to work with org-mode, but without Emacs, org-mode is just marginally better but much less popular Markdown. Org-mode really shines through its Emacs implementation - the absolutely magical interface for working with tables, the TODO/agenda capabilities, spreadsheet capabilities, the executable source blocks and literal programming - which turn it into a better version of Jupyter notebooks, etc.
- alpaca128 8y agoI don't need any magical features, I just looked for something like Markdown but with support for tables and LaTeX, so this format is perfect for me. Also, table support and LaTeX commands bring far more functionality than all of Markdown in the first place, I wouldn't call that marginal.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoTable support is one thing. Conveniences for editing those tables are another :). Still, it's great to know org as a format fills your needs outside Emacs. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic about it's adoption potential.