Re: Differences between Org-Mode and Hyperbole

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-07-02, at 00:09, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>   > 2. The spreadsheet. Apparently table.el was either too complicated or
>   >    too limiting to be easily used. Probably what should have happened
>   >    here is that table.el should have been improved. There's no intrinsic
>   >    reason why the spreadsheet aspect of Org needs to rely on Org's
>   >    markup, or its major mode.
>
> This could be an instance of the problem I mean.  If the spreadsheet
> were a separate facility from Org mode, so that you could use either
> one without the other, that doesn't mean they could not work together
> well also.

Org spreadsheet can use values in headline's properties.  That _might_
be tricky to do if it were a separate mode.
>   > So one observation is, Org got where it is by taking some existing Emacs
>   > libraries, making them easier to use, and allowing them all to coexist
>   > in a single document.
>
> But it didn't make those things easier to use.  It replaced them --
> but not each one by one.  Rather, it replaced all of them with one
> complex combined thing.  That's what I see as a problem.

I'm not sure I agree.  Indeed, Org replaced the Outline mode with
something a lot better.  Most of other features of Org seem to me to be
something new.  (Agenda is similar to diary, but that's about it.)

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University