From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83pmo99sxf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31777"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cage-dev@twistfold.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 05:09:34 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 1nEO0T-00085V-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2022 05:09:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nEO0S-0006gg-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nENuT-00027Z-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=37258 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 1nENuE-0003j3-DO; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:07 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=blWSjIRzD37EytQI5x9INe+dIOrUxMel4+Jb8I20OdU=; b=Akhx7fSD64Nx 6hjtaql1VIcKm3yMMvGCVO0yX4d+AJC/zATN8LJS4iB0jCkIInQOQqYEd0FZRah02SfTeioP2Tk4z fr/7FFLEdzE9wPF1J+FIQ08YSORENDdE1lS/h3gkKsYw+gYLmbS8Vd0pewbdBuFOnDxZW21fPCWay DVjfxaeE8TU1cP3kK0bUVmM/dIutmZDTSPxf7A8C/Xq8cbNMOKAsIY29sir5XXFMgPgnrPfQ4ZRD0 DmAqlt8HskN9j6gpHitxt5aUPqlS+yWjp2pLZhNYNHaa/ain2FmzxNIXggN6+ACZSZdSBoN38G94f 3VBL0MY5EoQBWsBOilAqUQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nENuE-00083V-5g; Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83pmo99sxf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:53:00 +0200) 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:285649 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. I second that. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)