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Why not org-mode?

• alexrustic 4y ago
  Thank you for your question. Exonote supports codeblocks like in Markdown. Instead of providing the ability to execute codeblocks, which would lead to literate programming [1] like in Emacs' org-mode, Exonote would execute a program whose source code is properly written [2] elsewhere by calling a function with arguments. I thought it would be nice to separate prose and source code and embed a program by simply referencing it with a minimalist syntax the same way an image is embedded in Markdown. This is how an image is embedded in Exonote: @[title](path/to/img.png) This is how a program is embedded in Exonote: ${path.to.module:functionOrClass arg1 arg2 "foo bar"} [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming [2] By properly written source code, I mean a regular Python package with tree structure, modularity, Python ".py" file extension, et cetera. Thus, with a minimalist syntax, one can embed not only a program whose source code is written in a directory inside an exonotes dossier, but also a program whose distributable package is installed in the current Python virtual environment.