🔥 Poll : Give a second life to this project? 🔥

[sipi]

if you want to see this project revived, react with 🚀
if you have some time to spend on this project, react with 👀

[glauber-experian]

I don't have the know-how to code, but may be able to help test.

[yeezy]

I'd be interested

[bzg]

A naive question from someone that does not use VS Code: is this plugin available to VS Codium users?

If so, and as the Org-mode maintainer, I'd love to see it revived.

Thanks for the work so far!

[sipi]

@bzg yes, it can be installed on VS Codium ;)

[Crystal-RainSlide]

VS Codium users should be able to search & install it right now, since it's on Open VSX registry already: https://www.open-vsx.org/extension/vscode-org-mode/org-mode

[tecosaur]

It's probably worth noting that I have an idea on how the capabilities could be dramatically expanded, by using Emacs as an LSP server: https://github.com/tecosaur/org-lsp this is very much on the backburner ATM though.

[PGilbertSchmitt]

I never imagined a project I worked on as a 1-week bootcamp project would have people wishing it were more maintained. I'm certainly a better coder than I was 5 years ago, I'd be happy to donate some of my time to its maintenance. Only thing is, I don't really know much about Org Mode (this was more Jason Reeder's baby). If there's work to do, and it's well defined, I can see about throwing some keys around.

In particular, @tecosaur's LSP idea might be worth tackling

[tecosaur]

For syntax highlighting, there's a new syntax document that is probably of interest: https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html, it mainly needs polishing for clarity but is the closest thing to a grammar available.

For fancier functionality (e.g. code tangling, babel) I think that would be great to have, but a huge effort to copy over, which is why I'm interested in the LSP idea to provide that. I've had approximately no time to spend on it since creating that repo though, so help would be very much appreciated.

[Fire-]

I discovered this today and honestly it reminded me of Obsidian - I'm curious how much effort it would be to share between the two ecosystems ( mainly because obsidian has a decent mobile app )

[gbraad]

Consider also the new-comer audience, as there is a reason why people want to use org-mode outside of Emacs. However the Readme states features but no actual shortcuts/key combinations how to do this.

[sipi]

I think, first effort should be on produce a new version with dependencies up to date…
Somebody interested ?

[sipi]

community's gitter: https://gitter.im/vscode-org-mode/Lobby

[arunkd13]

I discovered this today and honestly it reminded me of Obsidian - I'm curious how much effort it would be to share between the two ecosystems ( mainly because obsidian has a decent mobile app )

Orgzly is a very capable Android client for Org mode files.

[CodingFan72]

🚀🚀🚀

[apastuszak]

I find Org-mode to be a suboptimal experience on anything other than emacs. One plus of emacs is that there is a GUI and you configure it to vary the sizes of headings, and auto-format tables. Some of these things can be duplicated with plugins. But anything GUI-related won't work in VS Code.

You may be better off using pandoc to convert your org files to markdown and use a markdown plugin.

[CodingFan72]

I think that the org mode syntax has its justification as a database for apps even outside the emacs environment.

Don't get me wrong, I like Markdown. But almost every app expands the syntax to include specific characters that only the app itself can do with. There is no universal standard. Take callouts for example. The syntax for this looks different in Obsidian than in MkDocs etc.

In his article Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text Karl Voit compares Syntax of Org Mode with Markdown and AsiiDoc and notes that it has no dialects or software-specific modifications over Markdown.

I see a comparison here with the basic idea of todo.txt (although nowhere near as complex as Org Mode). The intention was to have a (data) base that apps and platforms could use (But even here there were app-specific extensions).

Apps like Orgzly, Orgro, Metanote or Beorg can do something with files in Org Mode syntax.

And to avoid a media change, I would be grateful if Org Mode also had its place on the VSCode platform.

[vthemelis]

I would also like to see this project be more active again. I started by fixing the build here: #216 (Can I have a review please?)

I am willing to contribute at least some bug fixes that interfere with my experience with the project.

[bzg]

Thank you very much!

[sipi]

@vthemelis

It's been a while since I've touched this project, but I'll try to find few time to look at it.

[vthemelis]

Thanks @sipi

I added a CI pipeline as well in #217 which I hope can make approving PRs slightly easier.