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> Your editor wants to add track changes and inline comments to your manuscript draft. How do they do that in your org-mode file? https://orgmode.org/manual/Co

> Your editor wants to add track changes and inline comments to your manuscript draft. How do they do that in your org-mode file? https://orgmode.org/manual/Comment-Lines.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Comment-Lines.html > You're writing a novel, and it has extensive research notes, background material, and miscellany you're keeping track of. https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Tags.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Internal-Links.html https://orgmode.org/manual/External-Links.html https://orgmode.org/manual/External-Links.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Handling-Links.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Handling-Links.html

michaericalribo 7y ago
To be clear, by "your editor", I don't mean emacs—I mean the person who works at a publisher: she knows that a gnu is just a wildebeest and inheritance bequeathal of wealth; assumes "C-c ;" is just an obscure emoji; and will not waste her time indulging a writer who uses an obscure [1], roundabout way of entering text into M$ Word. Look, again, you're preaching to the choir—I use emacs every day. But writing a Python script to generate my org-native ToC to navigate reference materials is just...a very different, more work-intensive beast than an interactive drag-and-drop IDE tailored to the needs of professional writers. Impossible to approximate, with enough determination? No. Possible to start using intuitively within the first 15 minutes? Also: no. [1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-popular-development-environments https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
- dleslie 7y ago
  I understood what you meant. "Open my doc in notepad or any other text editor. Put comments wherever you want; if you'd be so kind as to put them on their own line with a # at the start it would save me some time." Easy peasy. The beauty of org is that it's just a text file. You don't need Emacs to edit it.
  - mattl 7y ago
    And then you have line endings and weird control characters and emoji don’t work in Emacs, etc etc I too have used Emacs a lot. I’m getting off the boat.
    - dleslie 7y ago
      UTF Emojis work in Emacs, and control characters are displayed and easily removed. If you're git-savvy it's even easier to merge the comments in by using Magit and reviewing the changes individually.

michaericalribo 7y ago

To be clear, by "your editor", I don't mean emacs—I mean the person who works at a publisher: she knows that a gnu is just a wildebeest and inheritance bequeathal of wealth; assumes "C-c ;" is just an obscure emoji; and will not waste her time indulging a writer who uses an obscure [1], roundabout way of entering text into M$ Word. Look, again, you're preaching to the choir—I use emacs every day. But writing a Python script to generate my org-native ToC to navigate reference materials is just...a very different, more work-intensive beast than an interactive drag-and-drop IDE tailored to the needs of professional writers. Impossible to approximate, with enough determination? No. Possible to start using intuitively within the first 15 minutes? Also: no. [1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-popular-development-environments https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

dleslie 7y ago
I understood what you meant. "Open my doc in notepad or any other text editor. Put comments wherever you want; if you'd be so kind as to put them on their own line with a # at the start it would save me some time." Easy peasy. The beauty of org is that it's just a text file. You don't need Emacs to edit it.
- mattl 7y ago
  And then you have line endings and weird control characters and emoji don’t work in Emacs, etc etc I too have used Emacs a lot. I’m getting off the boat.
  - dleslie 7y ago
    UTF Emojis work in Emacs, and control characters are displayed and easily removed. If you're git-savvy it's even easier to merge the comments in by using Magit and reviewing the changes individually.