Recent emacs-devel discussion brought up some concerns about org-capture being very specific to Org mode and not integrated with the rest of Emacs.
However, org-capture was once built on top of the built-in remember.el before it was refactored into independent code by Carsten: https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/c46f10dc-de51-43d4-affe-f71e440d1...@gmail.com/ The refactoring de-coupled what used to be org-remember.el into completely rewritten org-capture.el that added important features that could not be implemented within remember.el framework: 1. org-capture arranges writing the text to remember directly into the target location where it is to be stored. This addressed an important problem of remember.el - remember.el always uses temporary buffer for user input and does not save it until remember-finalize is executed explicitly. A number of users sometimes forgot to call remember-finalize, leading to annoying data losses. 2. remember.el only allows a single text input at a time. org-capture makes it possible for users to write multiple notes in parallel. I am wondering if it would be possible to have the above two key features supported by remember.el. Then, org-capture.el could go back to re-using remember.el infrastructure and thus reduce code duplication. Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> writes: > > org-jami-bot builds upon jami-bot and extends it with Org mode capture > > functionality for text messages and images. > > This feature will be useful. I am not concretely sure what "capture > functionality" includes, but if it provides higher-level communication > between Emacs and Jami, that is a good thing. > > At the same time, it seems to be implemented in a way that imposes an > evitable restriction -- requiring use of Org mode. > > Dependence of various features on Org mode causes problems in two ways: > > * It makes those features hard to use for those that don't use Org mode. > > * It adds the need to learn Org mode to the need to learn Emacs itself. > > Therefore, new features which make sense indepdently of Org mode > should be usable without Org mode. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>