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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 bequeath
by michaericalribo 6y 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 6y agoI 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 6y agoAnd 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 6y agoUTF 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.