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There is no alternative to Plaintext for me. That said, I have 2 long term issues: 1. I've never quite found a satisfactory bulleting / indenting experience w
by reactspa 5y ago
There is no alternative to Plaintext for me.
That said, I have 2 long term issues:
1. I've never quite found a satisfactory bulleting / indenting experience with plaintext. Markdown helps, and isn't bad. But I'm still looking for inspiration on bulleting / indenting.
2. How to intersperse the console "prompt" (e.g. >, or $, or ~), and code, and comments and commentary... such that everything is easily human readable, and also code can be easily copy pasted into the console.
- nextos 5y agoorg-mode has very nice bulleting and indenting facilities, as it descends from outline-mode. I imagine other plain text outliners might have equivalent features. It also has good literate programming support so that you can run code from a plaintext file, which may also contain comments and capture the code output. I don't use this much, though. I prefer the usual model of programs split into files. I got addicted to outliners by using OmniOutliner, which used to ship with Mac OS X Tiger, if I recall correctly. It supports rich text format, but also works great if you stick to plain text. It is still very well maintained and has a great design, just like everything from OmniGroup. I prefer Emacs, but OmniOutliner is also very nice and much friendlier. It is also very flexible and scriptable. It was very popular when GTD began to take off in the late 2000s, so bulleting and indenting are really well covered too.
- goosedragons 5y agoOrg mode also let's you tangle your code chunks into separate files. And you can specify different files (or the same) for different chunks so you can kinda have programs split into files while doing everything in org. I really like this feature, I used to use Knitr but I don't think it's possible to tangle different chunks to different files.
- nextos 5y agoI know, but I have not found this very helpful (yet?) in my workflows.
- hatmatrix 5y agoOrg-babel is a treasure and I much prefer it to Jupyter. However, while org-babel is feature-rich in obscure ways that I constantly discover, it's still missing some out-of-the-box convenience like automated figure management and running multiple code blocks (like running code blocks to the middle of the page - not all the way through).
- goosedragons 5y agoThere is org-babel-excute-subtree but that only helps if what you want to run is in a subtree I guess.
- AA-BA-94-2A-56 5y agoDoes OmniOutliner work with plaintext?
- nextos 5y agoIt has some import/export facilities, but it's not really a plain text application.