Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

[Andreas Röhler]

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> Oh, I was pretty sure that org-footnote.el is only a wrapper around the
> original footnote.el that comes with emacs, but looking at the code it
> seems to be a completely separate facility.
>
> It says to have "better support for resuming editing" than footnote.el
> but be less configurable.  Can someone enlighten my what is meant with
> that better support for resuming editing?  I mean, footnote.el already
> provides automatic renumbering which is the only special feature I can
> imagine to be of great use when resuming to edit a footnoted document...
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo

Hi Tassilo,

common footnote.el was never able to detect if a file opened has already 
footnote inside. Didn't check that for some month now...

Also org-footnote implemented labeled footnotes, very useful to avoid 
clashes with forms like list[1]

BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, 
remove the prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for 
backward-compatibility.

cc to emacs-devel for this.

Cheers

Andreas

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