Re: [Orgmode] [OT] Taskwarrior, nice GTD-oriented CLI thing

[Eric Schulte]

Mark Elston <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/3/2011 8:03 PM, Torsten Wagner wrote:
>> Hi Marcelo,
>>
>> Emacs can run as a dameon and as that you could access it via
>> emacsclient. What is needed is a nice interface to allow to send simple
>> requests to insert and fetch data from org-mode. Some of the org-mode
>> function might do this already, however, I guess a decent layer which
>> hides the complex org-mode routines and provides simple to use in- and
>> output functions might be more effective.
>>
>
> There is also PyOrgMode which can probably be developed as an
> intermediary between the two.  I, for one, find Python *much* more
> approachable than elisp... :)
>

The only problem here is that you will invariably begin re-implementing
the entirety of Org-mode in python.  I think that an emacsclient backend
exposing an Org-mode api is the best bet, then a Python wrapper around
such a backend could be appropriate for writing the front-end interface.