1. Agree, auto-formatting tabular data in Org-mode is one of the central 
features.

2. I will go back to my "continuous edit pane" idea. I think if you really 
want to recreate Org-mode and make it attractive to those familiar with 
Org-mode there must be a "continuous edit pane" mode for Leo.

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 at 12:08:49 PM UTC-5, Arjan wrote:
>
> This sounds great! I would add two further desiderata based on orgmode's 
> capabilities (though I don't know if they are feasible).
>
> 1. Support for tabular data inside the body pane. In orgmode capturing 
> some tabular data is as easy as writing "| column a | column b |" etc.; you 
> can navigate columns with tab, columns adapt their width to the content, 
> and it is structure-aware, e.g. you can export tables to CSV/Excel. Perhaps 
> something like "@language csv" (or tab-separated @language tsv) could be 
> Leo's answer?
>
> 2. In OrgMode, outline structure and content are in the same pane. You can 
> expand all hierarchies and directly see and work on all the text in context 
> (i.e. see the contents of preceding and following headings). I've started 
> using Leo for writing and as information-manager, but this is really the 
> biggest thing holding me back to use it for everything. Leo's strength 
> derives from the outline capabilities, so you have to put small units of 
> information in nodes to benefit from that, and that means you can only see 
> one small piece of information at a time **while working on the text / 
> information**.
> So, what would be great is to be able to mark e.g. a chapter or section 
> node with an option "include all child nodes in the chapter's body pane in 
> outline order", with the ability to edit the child nodes' contents 
> directly. Probably far-fetched, but I can dream, right? ;)
>
> All best,
>
> Arjan
>

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