From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Differences between Org-Mode and Hyperbole Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:04:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h9cdmj6t.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467230769 26774 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2016 20:06:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 20:06:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Allen S. Rout" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 22:05:57 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bILk0-0005dh-GW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:05:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45573 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILjz-0007mZ-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILjB-0007le-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILjA-0008OX-IM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bILj7-0008L2-Bm; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bILj6-0007Lr-HM; Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:04:48 -0400 In-reply-to: (asr@ufl.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204947 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There's not much overhead in exercising this use case: Just compose a > speech, and insert > * headers > ** representing some > *** heirarchy > you feel appropriate. > Not to be whiny, but if you aren't willing to give that a shot, Give what a shot, exactly? I already put such text in the buffer, when such text is what I want. So I think I've already "given that a shot". Or do you mean something else? Like, editing it in Org mode? How would that be different from editing it in Fundamental mode? What benefit would it give me? > The next iteration is when you want to include a figure or such, and > instead of copying a PNG from the filesystem, you conceive the desire: > "Here's the gnuplot process to generate the image I want... I wish I > could just generate the image at document 'compile' time..." and hey > presto, you can. It might be useful if I used gnuplot. But I have never used it. I am sure Org mode is useful for the people who use it. I'm not disputing that. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.