The original "outline-mode" in EMACS which predates "org-mode" used stars.
Using stars "*" is the best way to do it; the reasons are many--OrgMode files are flat text files and this is great too--but keep this in mind here--think about searches, etc.
PYTHON uses indentation (and thats great); LISP silly/wonderful parens, etc.--for EMACS use stars! They look great! They are the best thing to use here:
Stars "*" are also used as the symbol for "regular-expressions"--based on neurology/neurons/dendrites/trees/outline-trees/etc. and the "Kleene Closure" (i.e. the mathematician Kleene)--the study of neurology and regular-expressions and the stars "*" are intertwined--the history dates at least back to the 1930s--and LISP/lambda calculus/Alonso Church/Kleene--the 1950s.
A star "*" @is@ a "Kleene Closure"--math.
A star "*" is easily recognized as a symbol for a note: From
http://Wiktionary.com: " "*"== "Used at the beginning of a footnote , especially if it is the only one on the page, and after a word, phrase, or sentence that this ..."
"So, why should I care"!? (you might have been thinking)
Well, howsabout this: Say you are searching for a string and/or regular expression in a flat text file--you wouldn't search for "*"--you would usually be search for a string (maybe an indentation level of stars "*") using EMACS--which is by the way the fastest way to find such things --if you are typing in real-time--emacs will highlight a search as you type it--this function is very fast--Suggest you try these 2 examples: Cs blah-search-string "***"--and maybe Mx search-for-regexp "***"---they have different uses/meanings--when searching in EMACS) since emacs is the fastest regular expression engine (for 1st-character(s)-recoginition (the engine is optimized for this) so for this case/this type of search there is @nothing faster@ (BTW check out QEMACS if you're working with a huge/gigabyte size files--its fun to edit huge files with QEMACS--written by the same guy that calculated PI with a desktop computer--to the longest # he also wrote QEMU (Fabrice Bellard:
http://bellard.org) for this type of regular-expression search (many other engines are faster and use different algorithms--for the purposes they were built for--and so they should be used then--each regexp engine seems to have a niche.)
Use EMACS OrgMode and use stars "*", they really are the best for this case; my brain is overheating thinking of the many good reasons. But, "How do they look when you print them out!?", etc.; well, I suggest you tailor that with PERL, thats what I use--I quickly change doc formats to TeX--TeX is the only thing that @really@ looks pretty!
Please "leave well enough alone"! That said, I hope you do whatever you want and don't listen to me or anyone else on such matters--EMACS is infinitely extensible, have fun!
;-)
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Samuel Wales
<samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Bayle,
On 2011-01-22, Bayle Shanks <
bshanks3@gmail.com> wrote:
> get new laptop
>
> organize interstellar dust meeting
> book the meeting room
> organize LOC
> Invited speakers
> - Draine
> - Tielens
> - Hollenbach
> 1st announcement
>
> fix the bell in the hall
convert. They do not handle indentation, but that might be a very
useful feature (I would use it too).
This does handle indentation. I wrote it a very long time ago for a
different, 8-space indentation.
(defun alpha-orgify ()
"quick hack. create org format from my indented outline
format, which consists of 8-space indentation. operate on the
region. assume a certain number of stars and odd levels."
(interactive)
(let ((b (region-beginning))
(e (region-end))
;;manually mod for now. headline vs. bullet.
(bulletp nil))
(loop
while
(progn
(save-excursion
;;use (re-)search-forward and replace-match when no query? i'd
;;prefer without the pattern (i.e. just ^) but you might be
;;re-orgifying an already-orgified region. btw match-string is
;;how you get the string.
(perform-replace "^\\([^*]\\)"
(if bulletp
" \\1"
"*** \\1")
t ;interactive
t nil nil nil
b
e))
(save-excursion
(perform-replace " "
(if bulletp
" "
"**")
t ;interactive
t nil nil nil
b
e))
(when bulletp
(progn
;;how to make it greedy?
(perform-replace "^\\( +\\)\\([^ ]\\)" "\\1- \\2"
t ;interactive
t nil nil nil)))))))
Samuel
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