Re: [O] [OT] org-mode bindings in markdown-mode?

[Phillip Lord]

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2018-04-13, at 15:14, Matt Price <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi eveyrone,
>>
>> I'm using markdown more and more in collaborative projects (sigh). I am
>> getting used to the syntax but it drives me crazy not to be able to edit
>> document structure with commands like C-return,, M-return, etc.  Does
>> anyone have a solution for this that works with recent versions of org? I'm
>> not up to date on the current status of various projects to extend org
>> bindings outside of org.
>
> Just wondering whether the lentic mode
> (https://github.com/phillord/lentic) with an org->md transformation
> could help.  (I haven't yet used lentic, so I might be competely wrong.)
>
> I'm CC'ing Phillip, who is the right person to comment on this idea.


It's an interesting idea, actually, and it would be a general way of
enabling text markup languages. You'd always edit in org-mode.

However, I think the problem would be writing the implementation. lentic
cannot really cope with complex text markups since it has to redo the
transformation often (every keypress). So the transformation rules need
to be really simple.

I haven't done a lentic transform for markdown yet, although I ought
to. The main problem is that the start of code sections is implicit,
which makes it a PITA.

Phil