From: Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com>
To: Org-Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Difficulty of using Org mode
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:21:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338675698.75401.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANROs4eR9PC8DiwbNS2K6odWMHhCC1k4e3VfdReTmByqQ526Hg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, folks. Just FYI:
----- Forwarded Message -----
>From: Yihui Xie <xie@yihui.name>
>To: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
>Cc: ESS-help@r-project.org
>Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:08 PM
>Subject: Re: [ESS] knitr
>
>There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer
>will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere;
>they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not
>designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it
>intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it
>quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just
>too complicated for me.
>
>Regards,
>Yihui
>--
>Yihui Xie <xieyihui@gmail.com>
>Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>
>
>On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> That's interesting that LaTeX was a barrier for R users.
>>
>> I've not used Markdown before; it seems neat, but what does it offer
>> that org mode doesn't? I see there is a markdown-mode.el
>>
>> http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/
>>
>> that has some support for org mode style cycling of outlines.
>>
>> Anyone prefer markdown to org mode, and if so why?
>>
>> (If anyone is interested, on the org mode list recently there was
>> discussion about exporting org docs to markdown.)
>>
>> Stephen
>
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2012-06-02 22:21 ` Michael Hannon [this message]
2012-06-04 6:29 ` Difficulty of using Org mode Bastien
2012-06-04 7:46 ` Michael Hannon
2012-06-05 15:09 ` Stephen Eglen
2012-06-05 17:25 ` suvayu ali
2012-06-06 16:48 ` Memnon Anon
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