From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "PT" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Annotation mode Date: 13 Oct 2005 23:39:23 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1129271963.787889.149720@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129272485 24863 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2005 06:48:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 08:48:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQJKr-0002SO-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:46:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQJKq-0005u5-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:46:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.237.142.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1129271968 24318 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2005 06:39:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:39:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.237.142.21; posting-account=b98TkQ0AAAD7PsllN8gfWGRoPOPWdnv4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134640 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30221 Archived-At: I'm looking for a mode for annotating files without modifying the file's contents, so the anotations are stored separately from the actual files. The desired features: - I want to add textual annotations to a file while reading it. I'm thinking of hitting a key which pops up a window showing the existing annotation (if any) for the file. I can edit the annotation and when I close the window it is saved automatically. - When a global annotation mode is enabled the currently stored annotations are always shown for the current buffer. - I'd like a browser which shows the existing anotations with the corresponding file names, so that I don't have to open the actual files if I want to see their annotations. The annotations should be searchable. Preferably they could also be edited from the annotation browser. I tried to search with Google for a similar thing, but didn't find anything. Thought I asked here first, before starting hacking my own implementation.