outshine VS outli

Note that outshine also supports editing of comment-blocks-as-org-syntax (via outorg) and many other legacy features.

I use https://github.com/alphapapa/outshine for this.

Some further digging in the Outshine github issues list shed more light on the problem, and suggested modifying the advice function for org-store-log-note in outshine.el. Since 1) I'm not keen on modifying packages (I might end up breaking something else), and 2) I only used Outshine (version 3.1.pre) for smart navigation and code collapsing, I figured a simpler solution would be to just remove the advice from org-store-log-note in my init.el after everything was loaded.

I've found that outshine is good enough for me to avoid the need for a literate config. I don't see it discussed often and I wonder why.

I had the same experience as you, and wanted nice automated headings, so I wrote outli. It's mostly a thin wrapper around outline-minor-mode, and is much simpler that outshine, dropping many vestigial features, and adding org quick-keys at heading positions.

I actually use my simple outli package for this, with folding, narrowing to sub-tree and org-style quick-key navigation. It does help a lot with a single large file.

It may also be worth taking a look at outli which provides org-mode-like navigation and structure editing via your comments.

I actually wrote a substitute for a pretty large and largely unmaintained package (outshine) called outli; it relies heavily on outline-mode and not much else.

This is what outline-mode is designed for. If you always want the same style of heading in various modes, and you want your headlines to have depth for hierarchical folding (e.g. // top level, /// next lower level, etc.), you might check out my little mode outli.

outli is a simple outliner mode which makes it easy to outline, fold, navigate, and restructure your code, documents, or other buffers. It offers nice headline styling, org-like speed-keys, imenu support, and more.