Re: Org-mode 4.39

[mtheo <mtheo@mtheo.net>]

> This is another big release with two exciting (I think...) new features.
> This is also the last big release before the summer, I expect to have
> one more bugfix release early in July.

On seeing this new release appear (and after undertaking a little exercise I'll 
describe in a moment) I feel impelled to offer a public word of gratitude to 
Carsten Dominik for the creation of org-mode, and by extension to all those who 
have contributed in any way to this remarkable software.

After over 25 years as a contented and loyal vi user, I finally took the plunge 
into emacs entirely because of org-mode's arrival on the scene. Better late than 
never -- I've never been so delighted with a major change of tools.

The little exercise I mentioned only takes a moment, and I heartily recommend it 
to anyone who hasn't tried it in a while. I simply opened up my TODO.org in an 
"ordinary" text editor. When I realized how seamlessly org-mode takes this 
tangled forest of stars and brackets and raw text, and transforms it into a 
supple and effortlessly navigable tool for keeping on top of so much -- so many 
things that would otherwise be lost or forgotten in the maelstrom of daily life 
-- I had to make some public offering of thanks in addition to the private one I 
expressed to him a couple of months ago (and a dozen and a half releases ago). 
Carsten could quite justifiably have replied "You ain't seen nothin' yet!" and 
it would have been a major understatement.

But he's way too modest for that; so once again, many thanks, Carsten!

Mark Theodoropoulos
Berkeley, California



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