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More seriously, there're https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode & https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer — but even more seriously, take a look at emacs + evil-mode (which make emacs a vim-clone, but an easily- & pleasantly-extensible vim-clone).
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VimOrganizer
VimOrganizer is partly a clone of Emacs' Org-mode, and partly a front end to Org-mode itself. Do Org in Vim.
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VimOrganizer
VimOrganizer is partly a clone of Emacs' Org-mode, and partly a front end to Org-mode itself. Do Org in Vim.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++THIS PROJECT IS ABANDENED++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sorry, this project is definitely abandoned.
However, you should be able to get all the info you need by
reading the info.txt and install.txt files, and there's way
more information in the vimorg.txt plugin help file you'll
find in the doc folder.
I myself now use Org-mode in Emacs using Evil, which is an
excellent Vim clone within Emacs. Not quite Vim, but feels
close enough and Emacs has its advantages.
Cheers,
Herbert
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16 sourcesThere was https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/ but it's inactive since 2014. Maybe there is a more recent one that I'm not aware of.
In Org-Mode for Visual Studio Code> Any tool that interprets Org-mode accepts this simple and easy to remember syntax.
Sorry but this just isn't true. org-mode doesn't have the standardization problems Markdown does only because it's not as popular. As far as I know org-mode also doesn't have a standard, just an official implementation. And all the unofficial implementations suffer from bugs where they do something a little differently (https://github.com/bjonnh/PyOrgMode/issues/39 , https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/issues/78 , plenty of others in every org-mode tool that doesn't just call Emacs).
This isn't to malign any of the authors of these tools, but the reality is without an actual specification the problems are exactly the same as Markdown's - everyone is chasing subtle implementation details, not a clear goal.
IMO, org-mode only makes sense in the context of
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editing within Emacs. The (enormous) value isn't in the file format, which doesn't really offer anything over GFM, but in the editing tool itself - which is difficult enough to realize inside of Emacs, let alone in any other editor - and its integration with other Emacs tools.
VimOrganizer also REQUIRES a Emacs install for most interesting things.
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/INSTALL.tx...
In Getting Organized with Org ModeThere is a clone (https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer) but it seems a little abandoned to me right now.
In Getting Organized with Org ModeI think timonv uses vim except for orgmode. In any case, there's https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
In The Command-Line OfficeAlthough I haven't tried myself, I've heard good things about VimOrganizer: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
In A Vim Tutorial and PrimerInstallation guide is here: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/INSTALL.tx...
It kills me that you can't use this plugin fully without Emacs:
"FINALLY, install Emacs. Not necessary for basic outlining, agenda
searches, and other basic stuff, but it is necessary to do exports
to html and PDF (which you will definitely want) as well as other
advanced stuff."
Anyone know what this "advanced stuff" is?
In VimOrganizer : An Emacs' Org-mode clone for Vimvim clone: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
In How do you track and decide what topics you want to spend time learning?Well the orgmode.org homepage calls out one[1] in particular:
"2010-11-25 Thu: Maybe the times where Org mode could change hard-core vi users into honorable Emacs users are coming to an end? A Vim clone of Org mode is be written by Herbert Sitz, and judging by the videos it looks promising."
Haven't used it, though.
[1]https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
In Let's just use EmacsIf you happen to be a Vim user, and in the mood to try a bleeding-edge project, you might find this nascent Org-mode clone interesting:
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342
In Grokking Org-mode and putting it in chargeThe VimOrganizer is trying to be as close to org-mode as it can be: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
In Bye bye iCal, welcome org-modehttps://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
Vims answer...
In How a Vim user converts to EmacsOn a slightly different note -- and if your LaTeX needs aren't too complex -- I'm working on a clone of Emacs' Org-mode that runs in Vim. Org-mode has a kick-ass export to LaTeX/PDF that adds a good portion of the markup based on your outline structure and some other simplified markup ( http://orgmode.org/manual/Structural-markup-elements.html#St... ), so a lot of the messy LaTeX markup can be left out of your main document.
I originally started work on my Org-mode clone in Vim because:
(1) I was a Vim user and couldn't quite make the switch to use Emacs' Org-mode,
(2) I loved Org-mode's export to LaTeX/PDF, and
(3) when I switched back to Vim from Org-mode I gave LaTeX-suite a try, but it felt a little too "low-level" for me.
So my thought was to write a simple outliner in Vim that was basically file-compatible with Org-mode (which was
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not too difficult), then call out to an Emacs server when I wanted to print to LaTeX/PDF. (Same principle works to export to nicely formatted HTML document or any other export Org-mode has.) This works very smoothly; assuming I have my Emacs server running initiating the export from Vim is just as fast and easy as if I were working directly Emacs.
Now I'm moving on to the more difficult task of duplicating other functionality in Org-mode, but if you just want a great way to author LaTeX docs in Vim my clone is already a decent solution for many uses. You can alter the LaTeX preamble defaults and enter LaTeX commands directly in the Vim Org-mode file, but I'm not sure how usable it is for more complex documents. Could do a little checking into Org-mode newsgroups to find out. . .
Anyway, for info on Org-mode's LaTeX publishing functionality see here:
http://orgmode.org/manual/LaTeX-and-PDF-export.html#LaTeX-an...
For a blurb about my Org-mode clone you can check here:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342
Best way to get it is from github:
https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer
Caveat: The project is in its early state, there isn't much documentation, and there are of course bugs and incomplete features. But for a basic export to LaTeX PDF or HTML all you need to do is (1) start up an Emacs instance to work as your server, (2) write or load an Org-mode outline into Vim that has the VimOrganizer ftplugin, and (3) issue command :OrgToPDF or :OrgToHTML.
I left vim for emacs solely because of how much nicer emacs lisp is than scripting stuff in vim: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/blob/master/ftplugin/o....
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