I find these org mode re-creations in other editors neat but the problem always seems to fall to the fact that other editors can't properly support org-indent-mode as they lack support for virtual text or because of other problems.
In org with org-indent-mode mode the following text:
* Foo
** Bar
baz
Is rendered as:
* Foo
* Bar
baz
This visual indentation and separation is, at least to me, an important feature which helps when reading.
It is basically a must-have for any org-mode re-implementation (I'm not just making up obstacles here, I daily-drive neovim and like the idea behind the org-mode plugin for neovim but I've tried it multiple times and it just doesn't work for me).
There are also probably many other shortcomings too.
I would not call it a must have as the default configuration doesn't indent the body. I don't have the option set and I would wager the majority of orgmode users don't either.
I think that Emacs does print two asterisks for the Bar heading, but all save the last are coloured the same colour as the background. And a single space is used for indentation for every heading asterisk - so a four-asterisk heading is indented four spaces.
I'm also a VIM user suffering Emacs just for org-mode. Evil makes it livable.
So that's why it always looked so weird in my case, with all asterisks but one being colored white like normal text. Apparently this feature doesn't always work as intended.
At least there's another plugin which replaces the asterisks with a single symbol per heading.
I see why some might like it, and it does improve readability, but I actually turn off org-ident-mode. I use a text editor because I like to see the syntax; brutalist by design, keep the magic hat tricks for Office.
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I find these org mode re-creations in other editors neat but the problem always seems to fall to the fact that other editors can't properly support org-indent-mode as they lack support for virtual text or because of other problems.
In org with org-indent-mode mode the following text:
Is rendered as: This visual indentation and separation is, at least to me, an important feature which helps when reading.It is basically a must-have for any org-mode re-implementation (I'm not just making up obstacles here, I daily-drive neovim and like the idea behind the org-mode plugin for neovim but I've tried it multiple times and it just doesn't work for me).
There are also probably many other shortcomings too.
I would not call it a must have as the default configuration doesn't indent the body. I don't have the option set and I would wager the majority of orgmode users don't either.
With VSCode there doesn't seem to be such a technical limit. See: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sean10.m...
I think that Emacs does print two asterisks for the Bar heading, but all save the last are coloured the same colour as the background. And a single space is used for indentation for every heading asterisk - so a four-asterisk heading is indented four spaces.
I'm also a VIM user suffering Emacs just for org-mode. Evil makes it livable.
Your system defaults effect this.
https://orgmode.org/manual/Clean-View.html
So that's why it always looked so weird in my case, with all asterisks but one being colored white like normal text. Apparently this feature doesn't always work as intended.
At least there's another plugin which replaces the asterisks with a single symbol per heading.
If it is colored white just like normal text, then I guess that is due to the theme you configured.
I see why some might like it, and it does improve readability, but I actually turn off org-ident-mode. I use a text editor because I like to see the syntax; brutalist by design, keep the magic hat tricks for Office.