Oh I know the pain, I did the same back in 2015. That was my first scientific paper ever. Then "never again" said to myself. Now I use pure latex. org-mode is only good for quick exports should not think it as an alternative to latex.

Simple demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPs74L5LFU

And the work on preliminary thread support is well under way..

Actually, auto-complete was written by Matsuyama (original author this article), though tkf has contributed to the project.

checkout http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/

> My emacs at times can't keep up with my typing. But I love what it does for me.

Try to set debugger on (M-x toggle-debug-on-quit) and when emacs stops responding press C-g to get to know what was emacs doing.

Org is very active, high profile project, the number of changes from previous major release are just amazing.

git diff release_7.01 release_8.0 --stat [snip] 352 files changed, 119010 insertions(+), 80849 deletions(-)

Org has 352+ files? I plead ignorance, but that strikes me as absurd.

Well why don't you look at them to find out why before you say stuff like that. It isn't exactly a fucking secret. It is quite small at the core and the rest of it is giving added value, like interaction with python, java etc and the large range of output formats etc. Just like a great many software solutions.

http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/lisp?id=5ef07d...

The emacs lisp tradition (or at least this is how I see it) splits functionality among files. As explained in the changes, there are files like ob-julia.el to work with the Julia programming language in Babel (literate proframming system in org) There is a file for language, for example. There's also the documentation and auxiliary files. I don't see where the problem is, org is huge but easily hackable due to this splitting

Org 7.9.2 (the version I have installed here) is 113 emacs lisp files, for a total of 85k LoC and slightly over 3 MB of code.

I'm not exactly sure what that git diff --stat command pasted above actually compared, but I don't think it's correct.

A) Correct, you are ignorant to think it's absurd.

B) 7.01 was released almost three years ago. A number of things have changed in that period of time, and it's reasonable to expect that 352 files were created, edited, deleted, etc.

From the last release (8 months ago) 2519 files changed, 203613 insertions(+), 124051 deletions(-)

Incredible to see how much work has put into Emacs development.

Magit is gem of all.. I think it comes on top a mile to any other gui for git I used so far.

> but I feel like it need to be forked and gutted.

There is Xemacs FYI..

> Including more shit each release is not justifiable.

Maintainers have indeed plans to split the packages out of the core, as the package manager is already up and running..