org-pandoc-import VS markdown-mode

You can try to use https://github.com/tecosaur/org-pandoc-import

Ooh, org-pandoc-imoort would be perfect for this! It'll convert your markdown files to org on import, provided you have pandoc installed, and then back when you save!

Orgmode's page about tools about import & export actually includes both to an entry about export to pandoc (ox-pandoc) as well as import from pandoc (org-pandoc-import).

It's always nice to see someone from the humanities interested in Emacs. I suspect that you'll find the best experience by using Org mode + Pandoc. This will let you write in a rather nice plaintext environment, and then export that to a .docx file. I don't think the styling will be great (could well be wrong though), but it should work fairly well :) Importing (from .docx to .org) is likely to be less smooth, but still decent.

The use case is: I maintain a little blog of my own and I use org mode for writing. I previously used Hakyll and Pandoc, but switched to Gatsby a while ago. Because Gatsby doesn't (didn't?) support using Pandoc in the pipeline, I switched to Orga, which provides a transformer for Gatsby. However, I've had a number of issues with Orga, so I'm looking for a replacement. I considered using org-pandoc-import and storing the documents as markdown instead, but I couldn't make it work properly. I'd also like to be able to utilize features such as (sequential) code block line numbering and links to code lines, which I haven't been able to find any support for outside of pure HTML export.

https://github.com/tecosaur/org-pandoc-import might help?

My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.

I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

Even emacs has a markdown mode:

https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

There is markdown-mode if you really prefer it over org. I use it to read markdown files sent by colleagues. It's very powerful, and very well documented, though honestly I don't use much of it's functionality. I use it mainly for it's ability to hide the markup (much like org) and follow hyperlinks.

As much as I love Emacs with markdown-mode, I agree that ghostwriter is the simplest for most users.

I can't find it here https://leanpub.com/markdown-mode/read#leanpub-auto-lists and here https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

;; This is a workaround to a bug in markdown-mode: ;; See: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode/issues/377 ;; https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/issues/333#issuecomment-913015564 (defun mpolden/gfm-unescape-string (string) "Remove backslash-escape of punctuation characters in STRING." ;; https://github.github.com/gfm/#backslash-escapes (replace-regexp-in-string "[\\]\([][!\"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@\_`{|}~-]\)" "\1" string))

Emacs makes autosaves by default and supports markdown-mode. Usually though it's nicer to put them in a central location by setting backup-directory-alist instead of the default behavior of putting them in directory you're working in of the original file. I stuff them into a directory ~/.saves with (setq backup-directory-alist(("." . "~/.saves")))`.

markdown-mode by Jason Blevins seems not have this function.

You might wish to install the Markdown Mode package. If don't want to do that for some reason, you can tell Emacs that files with names ending in ".md" should be opened in Text Mode by doing something like

github better: https://github.com/jrblevin/markdown-mode