Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: > >> Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I just found out that François Pinard (author of org grep among other >>> tools and frequent contributor to this list) died recently: > > This is sad news. > > Somehow, whenever I had an idea for a *brandnew*, cool&useful little Org > library and went ahead implementing it, it turned out that François had > this idea before and already had implemented his own version of the > library. > > This happened first when I announced Outorg, only to find out that he > had announced Poporg a few weeks ago. > > Then someone requested a feature for Outshine that shows the number of > hidden lines in folded headlines, which I implemented and then factored > out as the small 'org-hlc.el' library (Org hidden-lines-cookies). Only > to find out a bit later that there was 'org-weights.el' by - guess > whom. > > The completely different implementations show that all these libraries > were developed completely independently, but nevertheless - François was > very kind and friendly all the time, not a sign of anger that somebody > 'stole ideas' or 'doubled efforts' or so. It actually became a kind of > internal joke between us that for whatever project I started, he already > had an implementation in his "back-catalogue", and I used to send him a > PM first before starting a new project. > > While its normally a pretty frustrating thing to write a library that > already exists, it turned out that our implementations complemented each > other rather than competed with each other (see our joint article > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-outside-org.html on Worg). So > nowadays I tend to use his Poporg (https://github.com/pinard/poporg) for > editing doc-strings of functions and variables in Org-mode, and my own > Outorg for editing whole subtrees and (outshine) buffers in Org-mode. > > Its sad that this extremely friendly "competition" between Org library > writers cannot continue.
Thanks for this, Thorsten.
