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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model?
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:13:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh1cjwnf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAAjq1me2UbR71nTEKTZV=XgBJpR1jDtG2syfpVoipB6UAGrDHw@mail.gmail.com

Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Starting at org-mode files for a while and skimming over WORG it
> jumped out at me that
> org-mode really looks at its documents like a tree data structure. It
> doesn't force that
> worldview upon you, it just makes your life so much easier by help you
> to utilize it in Emacs.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Anyone else look at it this way?

Yes, everybody. In fact, org-mode *does* force you to view your document
as a tree and that's one of the most common complaints: people want to
have a piece of a section, followed by a subsection, and then pop up
again with another piece of the original section - org-mode does not let
you do that.

> 2. Are there any brokering functions between the org file and a SEXP?
 
org-element.el

> It would be nice to work
> with that since Emacs-Lisp already handles them fine.
>

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-05  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-05  2:26 What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model? Grant Rettke
2014-04-05  3:13 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-04-05 10:33   ` Thorsten Jolitz

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