Re: Emacs will never be a WYSIWYG-editor and should not try to

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 26.11.2013 10:15, schrieb Bastien:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > AFAIS org-mode is composed of at least three major areas:
> >
> > - the org-mode strictly spoken, with it's date-time and planning stuff.
> > - literal programming with it's exporters, which is probably of most interest 
> > here
> > - basic fixes and enhancements of common Emacs features, tables, footnotes etc.
> >
> > Would wish the both last items seeing back-ported into major Emacs
> > without need of org-mode.
>
> For the second item, you can't have it without Org.

Why not? We are speaking about org-babel, which is a great idea but not related 
to
the ToDo, time- and date stuff, were org-mode started and what its name 
indicates.


> For the third one, there is already
>
>    M-x orgtbl-mode RET
>    M-x orgstruct-mode RET

Well, so my suggestion is to transform it into just table-mode, struct-mode etc.

> Do you have a concrete suggestion for another minor-mode
> that could spin off from Org?

footnote? There will be a lot more with some probability...