A brief comparison of Leo and org mode.

Org mode has these strengths:

- Drawers: visible, pure text, easily extensible uA's.
- Agendas and tables.
- In-pane rendering of Latex and special symbols.
- Support for multiple source languages, including shell scripts, C, etc.
- Code blocks, with arguments.
- Result blocks.

Leo will have all of the above this year. Leo has its own strengths:

- Automatic tangling when saving files.
- @others, missing from org mode's noweb markup.
- Untangling: automatic update of @file nodes. Completely missing from org 
mode.
  In essence, all org mode files are @nosent files.
- Importers. There are importers, but apparently none for programming 
languages.
- Clones and especially clone-find commands.
- API: org mode does have a hacking api 
<http://orgmode.org/manual/Hacking.html#Hacking>. It's oriented towards 
parsing body text.
- DOM: org mode simulates a DOM with filters. Org mode data is 
fundamentally text.
- Python scripting, including a python plugin architecture.

There may be more ;-)

*Conclusion*: It may still be true, in some limited areas, that Leo can do 
things that can even be *thought *in org mode.  However, that statement is 
no longer generally true, and I'll remove it from all future documentation.

All additions and corrections welcome.

Edward

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