Hi Thorsten Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes:
> Thats currently possible with outorg.el, M-# M-# on a outshine subtree > or buffer is just the reverse of C-c ' on a source-block - it offers the > subtree of buffer in a temporary *outorg-edit-buffer* in full Org-mode > with the comment-section converted to text and the source-code enclosed > in source-blocks. (Did you look at `org-open-at-point' and the way it handles link in comments? I don't think M-# M-# does the same.) > So this works quite well already. But as outshine evolves, me and others > would like to have it more powerful and even more similar to > Org-mode. Then I start reimplementing features based on outline and > extensions, knowing that they are already there in Org-mode, > sophisticated and well tested. Thats a bit frustrating, especially since > it seems that its just a few chars in the regexps that inhibit using > Org-mode functions outside of org-mode. This would be easy to fix in a > small library, but since Org-mode is so big, this is really a political > thing since changing the regexps would cause more than 600 changes in > the sources and then require a (slightly) different approach to writing > regexps in the future. There is definitely a cost, but the gain would be > considerable too ... This is not about the number of lines to be edited or the man-hour we need to spend on this. Rather about performance and maintainability. -- Bastien
