From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mtheo Subject: Re: Org-mode 4.39 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:55:15 -0700 Message-ID: <449C7153.50003@mtheo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FtuYb-0006Ne-VQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:55:22 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FtuYa-0006Ln-1N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:55:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtuYZ-0006Le-Uf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:55:19 -0400 Received: from [64.42.88.65] (helo=anastrophe.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ftujs-0002Zz-0l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:07:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode > 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 -- producer / classics without walls the anti-warhorse zone / www.amural.com kusf 90.3fm / san francisco