Org-mode seems to be gobbling up everything having to do with text generation. Here’s the latest example:
Using #markdown blocks in #emacs #orgmode to automatically generate pdf files :-) That’s a way to combine multiple documents in one orgmode file. pic.twitter.com/saGyppkVdH
— Tobias Hölterhof (@hoelterhof) May 10, 2019
That’s pretty neat. Given that Org markup is superior to Markdown—sorry Markdown partisans, it is—it’s a bit hard to envision a non-contrived use case for the functionality but they surely exist. One example might be if you want to integrate some existing Markdown into an Org document. Doubtless folks with better imaginations can think of others.
It’s no wonder that Org envy is spreading to users of those other editors. There are already several ports to some of those editors as well as a standalone version. Of course, Org documents are plain text so you can trivially use any editor to write them but it’s Org’s integration with Emacs that provides the wonderful display, text wrangling capabilities, and, of course, (executable) Babel code blocks.