outorg Lets You Convert Source-Code Buffers Temporarily To Org-Mode For Comment Editing

outorg lets you convert source-code buffers temporarily to org-mode for comment editing.

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Getting Started with Org-mode

Harry’s presentation on Org-Mode is great. He shares his personal preferences. You can read his blog to learn about them too. The meter to the presentation is perfect, too. It left me thinking more about

  • What are out expectations as viewers?
  • What are our expectations as presenters?
  • Is it worth communicating assumptions?
  • Is it all an sales exercise?
  • How does our experience with commercial software change our valuation of OSS?
  • Org-Mode is large and expressive; can we ever say more than “In my experience, X is good or bad”? Sure everything is in our experience but people really don’t listen unless you make strong statements, right?
  • As of 2016, is it fair to start a conversation with something like “I’ve spent 1,000 hours mastering X… this is the context of what I’m about to share”? When we provide opinions should we provide the same contextual disclaimer? What does mastery mean today and what is it’s role in practice? Does mastery have a place when sales matters most? Do both have a place?

Export Literate Org-Mode Documents to Other R-Project Formats

After switching between Emacs/Org-Mode and RStudio one hundred times you start to wonder if you ought to export your Literate Org-Mode documents to RMarkdown and try it out for a while. ox-ravel lets you export Literate Org-Mode documents to RMarkdown, and more.

@dyalogapl Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

The announcement is here.

  • Great way to start the summer
    • Better for developers, too 🙂
  • Free for non-commercial use
    • Paid for it before as it was worth it
    • Hope better pricing attracts more users
  • Performance speedups
    • Hashed array type speeds things up
  • More cross-platform tools including functions and IDE
    • RIDE will go open-source
    • More/easier Emacs integration?
  • Workspace can reference Unicode files
    • Changes are stored back in the file