Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:41:05 +0200
> 
> > It would make more sense to call them various different modes.
> > That they all use a certain way of formatting the text may not be
> > important to mention.
> 
> Actually, it's crucial to mention that. You might say it's Org's 
> raison d'être. It's what makes integrating all of Org's functions 
> so tightly possible.

If features are well integrated and work together well, how is it
important to know that they do it because of a certain way of
formatting text?

> But at the same time it should be made clear from the outset that 
> Org's strength lies in its integration. I mean, I could use 
> Markdown with Pandoc to write my papers, *cough* Google Calendar 
> *cough* to keep track of my appointments, Jupyter for keeping 
> programming notebooks and *cough* Evernote *cough* to keep notes, 
> but there would be no way to link all of that. With Org, there is.

You are actually describe the strength of Emacs as an integrated
package whose parts work well with one another.  And yet we have
separate manuals for major parts: Gnus, Org, Eshell, etc. -- just look
inside doc/misc/.

IOW, I don't see a contradiction here.