On Tuesday, 16 Feb 2016 at 15:14, Samuel Loury wrote:
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> I still like a lot the liberty of the "plain text approach" of
> org-mode. It is VERY powerful, but it becomes a real problem when
> needing to use that power without emacs.
Yes, org works well because of the plain-text approach but only because
it has the power of emacs behind it! Without emacs, org would not be
anywhere as useful as it is. It's the whole customisation capability
that makes it useful for as many people as it does. All other tools
force you to conform to the decisions the authors of the tool made
whereas, with emacs, I can customise almost everything that relates to
my interaction with org.
Simple example: I use evil in Emacs as I prefer a modal interface to
alleviate RSI. I therefore do not actually use any of the default key
bindings that come with org. For instance, ", e" invokes
org-export-dispatch. ">" is org-meta-right. Etc.
Actually, this reminds me of one problem area in org: the org export
dispatcher has key bindings hard coded in ("l" for LaTeX, etc.). I wish
I could customise these. My bugbear is ox-reveal that requires me to
hit a shift key, something I prefer to avoid as much as possible.
(I know the bindings come from the individual ox- files, not the
dispatcher per se.)
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.90.1, Org release_8.3.3-597-gcaf66e
