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In search of a non-electron text editor that can fold | Are emacs and (neo)vim my only options? (discuss.online)
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[–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apologies for not being clear, and thank you for probing me to answer the right questions:

  • I'm not married to Markdown or any other markup language, but it is true that Markdown makes up my primary use case.
  • Though, with emacs installed, I've also dabbled into org-mode. And while I've been liking it so far, I understand that it's mostly an emacs thing.
  • I suppose my current needs would mostly be fulfilled with Markdown + LaTeX.

Here’s Eclipse, for example.

Thank you for mentioning Eclipse! Will look into it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

This has a "text folding" and "code folding" column.

Wow, that's pretty neat! Very much appreciated!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can pretty easily export Org mode files to markdown (and LaTeX)! There may be a setting you need to turn on (I forget and I'm not at my PC), but it works well and is very easy to use.

    Also, I haven't really done it, but from what I understand you can also setup emacs to be a really good LaTeX editor.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    You can pretty easily export Org mode files to markdown (and LaTeX)!

    Oh wow, thank you for offering me this learning experience!

    There may be a setting you need to turn on (I forget and I’m not at my PC), but it works well and is very easy to use.

    I'm on Doom Emacs, so perhaps this is enabled by default. But, at least for me, it was as easy as pressing SPC m e. This opens up the export menu. From there; one may select LaTeX, Markdown or any of the many other options to export to. The fuzzy search from M-x also allowed me to find it by typing out the functionality I was seeking.

    Granted, I am not entirely content on how Emacs handled the export to Markdown. But I wouldn't bat an eye if Emacs enables me to configure it exactly as I'd want to.

    Also, I haven’t really done it, but from what I understand you can also setup emacs to be a really good LaTeX editor.

    Again, I wouldn't be surprised. It seems Emacs lends itself extremely well to whatever you throw at it 😂. No doubt; this is dndgame-material for sure*.

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