These are the steps for telling Orgzly where the org-mode files are:

https://www.orgzly.com/docs#sync-repo-directory

When I tap “Browse”, there is only “Open from.. Recent”. There are no recent files. But wtf, I should not be limited to whatever the thing thinks is a recent file.

There is also a text box for “Directory URI”, everything I try is “invalid”, such as:

• /
• file://.
• .
• /sdcard1/
• org-mode/

Other apps have this same problem where the file browser is limited to either “Recent”, “photos”, or “videos”. I think the shitshow might be native to how AOS 5.1 is designed to nanny users or something. Anyone know the escape from this shit?

BTW, I have a file manager that can browse all my files just fine. But when I have to reach a file from within an app it’s a disaster.

Orgzly version is 1.8.10 (the last version before abandoning AOS 5 users)

Update

file:///sdcard/org-mode/ worked. But Orgzly is quite crippled.. could not handle most of the files. SyncOrg can at least present all my org-mode files, although it’s quite primitive in the constructs it can recognize.. cannot boldface or underline words.

LaTeX mode and pretty much any programming mode supports comments. In principle, comment blocks could really benefit from some org mode features, particularly a mechanism to collapse lengthy paragraphs and lists (like the markdown spoiler).

Or is there already a universal way to collapse text in code comments?

The search for middleware between emacs and Lemmy was a dead end. So the next question is naturally:

Does anyone else use emacs to compose Lemmy posts, before copy-pasting them into a lemmy client?

I work offline, so of course I use emacs for this. But I wonder if I am alone.

So far I’ve only used org mode with a single file. Each post starts with an asterisk, then I put this at the top of the file to start in the collapsed state:

#+startup: hideblocks
#+startup: fold
~disable~ #+STARTUP: showall

The competing workflow would be to have each post in its own file with an .md extension to get markdown mode. But markdown mode is not using the same markdown as Lemmy. And it would be tedious to deal with many separate files.

problems with markdown mode:

• many files to manage
• markdown language differences
• paraphaphs must be unwrapped before copying to the buffer

problems with org mode:

• no syntax highlighting for markdown
• paraphaphs must be unwrapped before copying to the buffer

Am I missing anything?

Any tips for coping with this? I know there is an add-on somewhere that will fill and unfill paragraphs as a toggle, but that would still be tedious if it’s one paragraph at a time.

Just wondering if anyone has managed to access Lemmy from emacs in any way. Theoretically, this may be feasible:

emacs (gnus) → nnreddit → lemmy

But I’ve not heard anything solid about whether nnreddit has been adapted to interface with a lemmy server. This bug report has been open for the past year:

https://github.com/dickmao/nnreddit/issues/90

OTOH, the project moved to a website that’s broken (at least, for me it’s broken).

... but won't if one has a custom theme loaded, as far as I can tell. The post is my attempt at a solution.