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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com>
Cc: Org-Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Difficulty of using Org mode
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:29:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3znsi7p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338675698.75401.YahooMailNeo@web161901.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (Michael Hannon's message of "Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:21:38 -0700 (PDT)")

Hi Michael,

Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, folks.  Just FYI:
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>From: Yihui Xie <xie@yihui.name>
>>To: Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> 
>>Cc: ESS-help@r-project.org 
>>Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:08 PM
>>Subject: Re: [ESS] knitr
>> 
>>There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer
>>will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere;
>>they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not
>>designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it
>>intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it
>>quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just
>>too complicated for me.

Well, it all boils down to disambiguate what "learning Org" means.

It is hard to say just from the message above.  If you can, please
redirect the OP to this list so that he feels guided in tasks he wants
to do with Org.

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04  6:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]     ` <CANROs4eR9PC8DiwbNS2K6odWMHhCC1k4e3VfdReTmByqQ526Hg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-06-02 22:21       ` Difficulty of using Org mode Michael Hannon
2012-06-04  6:29         ` Bastien [this message]
2012-06-04  7:46           ` Michael Hannon
2012-06-05 15:09             ` Stephen Eglen
2012-06-05 17:25               ` suvayu ali
2012-06-06 16:48                 ` Memnon Anon

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