Andrea Lazzarini <andrea.lazzari...@gmail.com> writes: > I've fiddled with org-edit-special and I see it has a major flaw, at least in > my opinion. > It inserts all changes without keeping track of the undos, as opposed to the > indirect > buffer solution, which also had the advantage of doing everything from a > single buffer: > it operates as some sort of 'window' on a part of the file, rather than > feeling as some > sort of out-of-the-normal operation. Aren't there other possibile use cases > for indirect > buffers in org mode? Why are they considered inferior to other solutions? I > ask just > for my understanding. > > (A combination of eldoc + org-edit-special might be rather affecting on the > seamlessness of the workflow, but this is of course my simple personal > opinion).
I've been playing with org-footnote-assistance, and this is again just another opinion, but I'm also preferring the indirect buffer. It just puts things in better perspective. --