Re: Suggestion: Put C-h N (news) in org-mode

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Subject line pretty much says it all --
>> Old-style outline mode is suboptimal compared to org-mode --
>> and worse, launching C-h N and trying outline-based
>> nav fails.
>
> I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but I'd like to hear some more
> concrete reasons why the difference would be good (and why for those
> particular files).
> E.g. an alternative is to move some of Org's functionality into Outline,
> or even make outline-mode into an alias for org-mode.

One thing I did notice with Org mode is that there is a noticeable delay
between visiting a file and having it displayed.  On my laptop,
displaying NEWS with Org mode takes about a second, whereas visiting it
with Outline mode is almost instantaneous.  I'm not sure where the
bottleneck is.