What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model?

What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model?

[Grant Rettke]

Hi,

Starting at org-mode files for a while and skimming over WORG it
jumped out at me that
org-mode really looks at its documents like a tree data structure. It
doesn't force that
worldview upon you, it just makes your life so much easier by help you
to utilize it in Emacs.

Questions:

1. Anyone else look at it this way?
2. Are there any brokering functions between the org file and a SEXP?
It would be nice to work
with that since Emacs-Lisp already handles them fine.

Regards,

Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, AMA, COG, FSF, IEEE, Sigma Xi
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Re: What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model?

[Nick Dokos]

Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Starting at org-mode files for a while and skimming over WORG it
> jumped out at me that
> org-mode really looks at its documents like a tree data structure. It
> doesn't force that
> worldview upon you, it just makes your life so much easier by help you
> to utilize it in Emacs.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Anyone else look at it this way?

Yes, everybody. In fact, org-mode *does* force you to view your document
as a tree and that's one of the most common complaints: people want to
have a piece of a section, followed by a subsection, and then pop up
again with another piece of the original section - org-mode does not let
you do that.

> 2. Are there any brokering functions between the org file and a SEXP?
 
org-element.el

> It would be nice to work
> with that since Emacs-Lisp already handles them fine.
>

-- 
Nick

Re: What are most users worldview of org-mode's data model?

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

>> 2. Are there any brokering functions between the org file and a SEXP?
>  
> org-element.el

Those '-map' functions are very useful and powerful too:

C-h f org--map TAB

,-----------------------------------------------------------------
| Possible completions are:
| org-babel-map-call-lines               org-babel-map-executables
| org-babel-map-inline-src-blocks        org-babel-map-src-blocks
| org-block-map                          org-element-map
| org-goto-map                           org-set-transient-map
| org-table-map-tables
`-----------------------------------------------------------------

C-h f org-map- TAB

,--------------------------------
| Possible completions are:
| org-map-dblocks org-map-entries
| org-map-region org-map-tree
`--------------------------------

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten