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I refuse to use a plain text editor for my personal notes. Bold, italic, underline, text highlighting... these are all things that help me organize text and dra

by anbop 8y ago

I refuse to use a plain text editor for my personal notes. Bold, italic, underline, text highlighting... these are all things that help me organize text and draw my attention to certain areas. Asterisks simply don't do the same job, visually.

mikekchar 8y ago
Luckily for you Emacs lets you set the faces (emacs's name for syntax highlighting) however you want it. You get the best of both worlds: convenient keyboard interface and marked up text in the editor.
kqr 8y ago
Emacs Org supports three different settings in terms of this: - Show styling sigils and keep text plain; - Show styling sigils AND style the text; - Hide styling sigils and style the text. In my experience, the middle option really hits the sweet spot.
mruts 8y ago
..which is why you wouldn’t use org-mode? Org-mode does all of those things and more: inline images, tables, latex, etc.