> but everything else seems superfluous for a personal configuration.
I've not used outline minor mode, but reading up on it, it seems it's merely for presentation vs editing. As an example, can I move a heading and its subtree to another part of the document? Doing so makes managing configs much easier.
> I have read dozens of supposedly literate configurations on the web, and most of them are just header, begin_src, code, end_src, repeat.
Most code I've read is crap. That doesn't mean one can't write code well. My own literate configuration is probably 80+% as you describe, but it's the remaining 10-20% where I do write some prose, with links, etc that make it worthwhile.
I agree that it is yet another level of complexity for beginners. My own personal experience, though, was it would be much harder to debug plain init.el files than the org ones.
In any case, I have no objection to using outline-minor-mode instead. I just think that many users are going to learn org mode sooner or later, and it's less cognitive load to just jump into org mode. I'm pretty sure most people who put their config in outline mode will eventually migrate it to org anyway :-) And I don't see any actual advantage to outline minor mode in general.
I've not used outline minor mode, but reading up on it, it seems it's merely for presentation vs editing. As an example, can I move a heading and its subtree to another part of the document? Doing so makes managing configs much easier.
> I have read dozens of supposedly literate configurations on the web, and most of them are just header, begin_src, code, end_src, repeat.
Most code I've read is crap. That doesn't mean one can't write code well. My own literate configuration is probably 80+% as you describe, but it's the remaining 10-20% where I do write some prose, with links, etc that make it worthwhile.
I agree that it is yet another level of complexity for beginners. My own personal experience, though, was it would be much harder to debug plain init.el files than the org ones.
In any case, I have no objection to using outline-minor-mode instead. I just think that many users are going to learn org mode sooner or later, and it's less cognitive load to just jump into org mode. I'm pretty sure most people who put their config in outline mode will eventually migrate it to org anyway :-) And I don't see any actual advantage to outline minor mode in general.