From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:24:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83fsp59j5a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pmo99sxf.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19332"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cage-dev@twistfold.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 19:24:58 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEsi-0004n5-H3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:24:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEsg-0003Sn-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:33162) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEsC-0002ne-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:24:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=52032 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEsA-0001He-Ly; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:24:22 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=QxUpq0N49M1c6LLebXymZQV/mugpnz0Er81fZj0BNjs=; b=MWwFpLjiAuiO Adc8/oqKO6+vJdo0nA+sDyAYDzN4oH6mxBw99XlUdfB43YnE0ds02jnzKUhF6FNaNFKoQ9JfWMwUl 3yR2qiOD9L2mp8Aa8vMj1PxlVkkIRkmWifNcdvuFnMw6lx7/TP22vUBj4S2RqQwppuj9u9gG9jrmR ryikiZxIC1hAD88WQMTIcvYYiVhKe91JONQzN1OiV58HwXrQY+UtIfGRGhNxbqerz/wH2+u4Q0rNe ZUaA1eEMIt7oPmgI+DjQ69+YL3/mfq1nuURKOruHkvGCqz2W3hO4yzh9DXKMei55GsDMp9nJGYj87 CI6B5eN8anEGk8jta2Jc8Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3252 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEEsA-00017q-3k; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:24:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:20:32 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285626 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: cage , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:20:32 -0500 > > > FWIW, I wish Emacs had in core a mode that would allow adding notes > > (a.k.a. "annotations") to files, which (a) didn't use overlays that > > display in the text area, but instead displayed the notes in the > > margin and/or in tooltips; and (b) would save the notes of FILE into a > > FILE.notes file, not into a single DB under the user's home directory. > > I think it would be a very useful feature that every text-processing > > package should have built-in. > > Note that beside this `annotate.el` that's also `org-remark.el` recently > added to `elpa.git` which offers similar functionality, but similarly > suffers from the use of absolute file names to connect the notes and > the file. Yes, I'm aware of that. I guess people are happy with this situation.