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KarlVoit
8mo ago
I beg to differ. MD did not "win". That would imply that no alternative situation would be possible any more. It's just the most popular Lightweight Markup Language (LML) at the moment. And I do think that it's worth cha
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
Sorry to take away your reason: https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool... There are multiple solutions where you may use orgdown (syntax) from within vim although I bet vi
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
My thing? ;-) My things are pretty much safe because I usually do risk analysis before I'm using new tools according to https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/ The purpose of the article is to
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
I did and I mentioned very particular reasons and arguments. You posted an opinion. Now, I'm very curious how you came to your conclusion: was is adequate? How to you compare? Did you read the article and got the reasons mentioned why
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
You statement gives me the impression that you haven't read a single paragraph from the article you're commenting on.
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
Orgdown doesn't require Emacs either: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/To
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
One of the arguments of the article is that there is a fundamental difference: Markdown was created as a small subset of syntax elements. Therefore, there was a high demand on syntax extensions that were added in a chaotic fashion. Orgdown
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
I would ask you to read the article before writing a comment like that. The whole point of the article is that there is no Markdown. At least not a single instance from it. So when you're referring to Markdown, you're actually ref
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
The point of https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ and even more https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ is that I do think that orgdown
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
I'm sorry. You're starting a totally different topic here. I tried to emphasize in my article that this is about orgdown, the syntax of Org-mode which itself is an Elisp implementation of a flexible tool. So whenever you refer t
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KarlVoit
8mo ago
Author of the article here: It hurts me to read through the comments. One part of the people who commented obviously didn't read the article they're commenting on. And another part of the commenters does mix up Org-mode, the Elisp
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KarlVoit
2y ago
Unfortunately, "Org-mode" (or Orgmode) means two different things: (1) the lightweight markup syntax and (2) the Elisp implementation of a PIM/PKM tool within GNU Emacs. This seems to be subtle but it results in many misunder