From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Rogers Subject: Re: The statement on what is orgmode. Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:50:00 -0800 Message-ID: <86sj7itfed.fsf@davidrogersmusic.ca> References: <20121205222817.GA1243@panahar> <87hao06km3.fsf@pank.eu> <20121206032633.GA12314@panahar> <20121206230457.GA19292@panahar> <874njy93eh.fsf@gmail.com> <20121207010052.GB24269@panahar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgtdY-0001Oe-08 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:50:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgtdW-0001O7-OG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:50:23 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:32841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgtdW-0001O1-HT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:50:22 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id bj3so319531pad.0 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:50:21 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: brian powell Cc: emacs-orgmode brian powell writes: > So, again, seriously, this thread is misnamed. "What can't you do in > Emacs/OrgMode?" What can't it be used for?--this should be the thread! > > I'd really like to know. Every week or two, something comes off my very > tiny list, which is just about empty. Seriously seriously? Things you can't do in Emacs that feel as if they *should* be practical, even though they currently are not - Web browsing with ease, and with a full list of currently-expected features (i.e. features to make the general public say "Wow! This is much better than Firefox! I'm switching to this for banking, and for everything else as well!" - not "Umm, why does it look like this?"). This single (admittedly huge) feature, probably along with the next one, are IMO the "killer features" that Emacs does not have. - Ability to continue working in other buffers when one buffer is busy. Combine this feature and the one mentioned above, and I (perhaps along with a lot of other people) move from two primary every-day applications down to one. - WYSIWYG word processing with multiple fonts per page, adjustable margins, and named styles (not saying it should ever be implemented, just saying it's something Emacs can't currently be used for) And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode & Gnus & Emacs on a touch screen - Optical character recognition within Emacs - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in web forms And then comes the truly unlimited category of "What, are you crazy???" - Emacs Movie Editor - Emacs Music Recording Studio - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber - "SkypEmacs" simultaneous videoconferencing and collaborative text editing, where the participants all type into the same document at once, but also their entire voice conversation is automatically transcribed to plain text, and that transcription saved in the same directory as the document. (i.e. things that prove "It isn't all text after all, but some of it is".) -- David