> Why settle for an extra layer of indirection that makes interactively working with source code more time consuming? I understand what you mean. But it never

> Why settle for an extra layer of indirection that makes interactively working with source code more time consuming? I understand what you mean. But it never seemed to be a problem for me. Anyway, the real reason why I ended up with org-mode is that I heavily customize Emacs. The only way to be able to handle that much configuration was to split it up into a dozen or so elisp files. Org-mode's biggest advantage (for me) is that it can manage complexity very well. The org-mode configuration file is neatly divided into topics along with their documentation. The topics are also folded up - so it's very easy to find certain configuration segment.