I watched the Org-Mode Google Tech Talk video recently. It helped me
to understand more of what Org-Mode was about. I thought I'd share
some likes and dislikes concerning Org-Mode.
Like:
- Different agenda views. Very nicely done.
- Folding the entire structure of the document to make a "Table of
Contents" of sorts.
- Colorized "TODO"/"DONE"/"WAITING" keywords.
- Generating an HTML table from an Org table that is embedded in a
comment.
- Auto-realigning tables after hitting TAB.
Dislike:
- Meta+(left arrow, right arrow) key bindings. I use this all the
time for navigating around documents in modes other than Org, and
it annoys me that Org mode uses this to manipulate heading levels.
This is easy enough to work around, with a few well-placed
define-key statements.
- Focus on tables. Now that I'm out of college, I have no use for
tabular data. Then again, the
taylor + Calc example in the video
was amazing.
Open questions:
- How does Org Mode deal with some text at the left margin which
follows a heading? Does it get folded with the heading? I don't
want to have to indent text just to get it folded.