Org-mode file format support

Posted by Chris Thompson
Oct 21, 2019 at 06:11 PM

There is an org-mode plugin for the increasingly popular VS Code editor. Last time I checked, it didn’t support folding though, which is probably a big deal if you’re looking to use it as an outliner, but might not be a deal-breaker if you just want to view org-mode files.

That being said, most of the appeal of org-mode isn’t related to the file format, but instead to all the associated functionality, for which you’d really only get a small taste outside of Emacs. Full-blown org-mode is closer to a really elaborate PIM/information organizer that just happens to store everything as plain text, as opposed to a plain text document file format like Markdown.