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Org mode is a better readme and a better notebook :)

• enriquto 6y ago
  Is there a way to enjoy all the pleasures of org mode without having emacs installed on my computer? If there isn't, it seems that "org mode" is a very bad name and it should be called simply "emacs". Or, if you want to be too precise, "emacs, with some configuration tweaks".
  • eatonphil 6y ago
    emacs is my main editor but I haven't figured out org-mode. So I see the users as more a subset (possibly power-) group of emacs users. But yeah while there may be other interfaces to org-mode these days emacs is the primary one.
  • gkya 6y ago
    It's for organisation of information and it's an Emacs "mode". It's as much "emacs with some configuration tweaks" as VS Code is "chromium, with slightly improved <textarea>". W.r.t. the good question in a comment that definitely has more than just that, yes, there are partial ports of Org mode to vim, VS Cod{e,ium}, and AFAIK Sublime Text, but Org does make use of some facilities of Emacs that are not as easy to replicate on these editors. For exporting, Pandoc can help to some extent, but it's imperfect and not as configurable.
    • enriquto 6y ago
      > VS Code is "chromium, with slightly improved <textarea>" Ha! I love this, definitely going to say it in public. Apart from this joke, I asked a well-intentioned question. I have seen people doing magic with org-mode, treating text documents as if they were notebooks, running snippets of code by selecting them, then having the output as text. I would like to do something similar in vim, if possible.
  • sgillen 6y ago
    You can certainly enjoy org mode documents read only without emacs, it’s ultimately plain text. If you want to edit org files I really don’t think there is a good substitute for emacs if you want all the features, however you can definitely do basic modifications with any text editor.