Org mode for Emacs
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Org is a highly flexible structured plain text file format, composed of a few simple, yet versatile, structures — constructed to be both simple enough for the novice and powerful enough for the expert.
Get a glimpse of the expressive power Org offers in the example below. Click the headings and links to discover how Org intelligently folds structural content.
#+title: Example Org File #+author: TEC #+date: 2020-10-27
Outlining
Headings and folding make structured editing a breeze.
Plain text makes it easy to sync and version control Org files.
* Revamp orgmode.org website
Outlining
Headings and folding make structured editing a breeze. Plain text makes it easy to sync and version control Org files.Agenda
List todos across all your files. Filter content, and update it in place.The /beauty/ of org *must* be shared.
[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Share_Icon.svg]]
** DONE Make screenshots
CLOSED: [2020-09-03 Thu 18:24]
** DONE Restyle Site CSS
Go through [[file:style.scss][stylesheet]]
** TODO Check CSS on main pages
Prose
* Learn Org
Org makes easy things trivial and complex things practical.
You don't need to learn Org before using Org: read the quickstart
page and you should be good to go. If you need more, Org will be
here for you as well: dive into the manual and join the community!
** Feedback
#+include: "other/feedback.org*manual" :only-contents t
* Check CSS minification ratios
Babel
Perform literate programming in org, with notebook-like live code execution in the buffer.#+begin_src python
from pathlib import Path cssRatios = [] for css_min in Path("resources/style").glob("*.min.css"): css = css_min.with_suffix('').with_suffix('.css') cssRatios.append([css.name, "{:.0f}% minified ({:4.1f} KiB)".format( 100 * css_min.stat().st_size / css.stat().st_size, css_min.stat().st_size / 1000)]) return cssRatios
#+end_src
Evaluated results
#+RESULTS:
| index.css | 76% minified ( 1.4 KiB) |
| org-demo.css | 77% minified ( 2.8 KiB) |
| errors.css | 74% minified ( 4.9 KiB) |
| org.css | 75% minified (10.7 KiB) |
Further reading
Beyond the quickstart and the manual, Org has a guide and a wealth of community-written documentation on Worg .
Nearly every Org user has a story to tell about how Org enables and empowers them — some have found it so useful that they have written (scientific) papers about the value of Org for conducting reproducible research. Some have produced third party tools to enjoy Org outside of Emacs, such as mobile applications.
More Org
The de facto mimetype for Org files is text/org. Org files use the
.org extension. Most operating systems don't know to open .org files
in Emacs, but they can be configured to do so without much effort.
While the reference implementation of Org in Emacs lisp is by far the most featureful, there are many additional tools that work with Org.
Worg, a World of Org
Org and Org-mode have so many use cases that it is simply not possible to easily document them, let alone show them all off on a single page. As a result, Worg serves as a community wiki and provides a place to document and share information about all aspects of using and working with Org.
For example, Worg contains:
- The FAQ
- Org hacks
- A list of tutorials
- Documentation on all hooks, commands and options
- Org in the wild
- …and much more
Worg is maintained as a Git repository of Org files that are published as an HTML website. New contributors are welcome.
~$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg
Joining the mailing list
Org mailing list is the central place where to connect with Org community. You can subscribe to the list and browse the list archive on list.orgmode.org or on this mailman page.
If you are not a subscriber to the list, you can still send an email to emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, we will add you to the whitelist of people who can reach the list.
You can read more on the mailing list and more information on Org news on the social web.
You can also connect with other org-thusiasts via IRC at #org-mode on
Libera.Chat.
The full list of contributors to Org mode is maintained in Worg and you can also check the manual's acknowledgments.
Doom, Spacemacs, Scimax and popular configs
The Emacs starter kits Doom, Spacemacs and Scimax come with a curated
set of packages and configurations that aim to enhance Org mode (and
Emacs more generally) for particular use cases. They include Org
along with integrations between org-mode and other modes (such as
evil-mode). Here are links to the current packages included with
Doom, and Spacemacs. Scimax is deeply integrated with Org so a good
place to start is the manual. Doom installs a version of Org that is
close to the development HEAD, while Spacemacs and Scimax track org
elpa.
Starter kits often make significant changes to the default user experience for Emacs. If you are looking for something closer to vanilla Emacs there are popular configs such as Purcell's emacs.d that include org-mode customization and Org-related packages.
In Other Editors
While the full set of Org features is currently exclusive to Emacs, basic functionality for Org files has been implemented for a variety of editors. Here are some extensions for other editors that enable support for Org files.
- Vim : orgmode.nvim, vim-orgmode, and org.vim
- Atom : org-mode
- VS Codium : vscode-org-mode
