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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>,
	Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Temporary notes in Emacs buffers?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 07:54:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d94bf524-76a6-497f-94b0-0b786a224aff@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhfecbpt.fsf@mbork.pl>

> I've been wondering if there is some package which could let me make
> "temporary notes" in Emacs buffers, similar to (but different than) the
> "yellow notes" in some pdf viewers.
> 
> My use case is that I'm making a sweeping change across a pretty large
> codebase, and I'd like to make some notes in places I've already
> visited
> / ones I need to change / etc.
> 
> At present, I use normal code comments, however, this is suboptimal,
> since I cannot use them in certain modes (occur buffer, JSON).
> 
> Ideally, a place with a comment would have that comment highlighted
> somehow, and I should be able to go to the next/previous comment, and
> list all comments in a file or in the project (think Git repo,
> Projectile project or a directory tree).  Also, mass inserting such
> comments from an occur/multi-occur/projectile-ag/counsel-rg/etc.
> buffers
> would be great.
> 
> What I /don't/ want is modifying the files - the comments might persist
> in some /other/, .gitignore-d file, or just disappear on exiting Emacs.
> 
> I know bookmark+ has similar features, but I'd prefer something more
> lightweight.
> 
> Does there exist something like that?  Am I the only one interested in
> such a feature?  (I'd be happy to code it myself, though it would take
> time, of course.)

Vanilla Emacs bookmarks provide the ability to annotate.
Bookmark+ enhances annotating (e.g. to use Org and
indirection), but the annotation provided by vanilla
Emacs bookmarking does what you requested.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-27 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-27 10:19 Temporary notes in Emacs buffers? Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-27 10:43 ` Mpho Jele
2019-12-27 11:51   ` tomas
2020-01-01 21:48     ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-12-27 15:54 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-01-02 17:49   ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-05  2:37   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-05 17:54     ` Drew Adams
2020-01-06  5:18       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-06 15:12         ` Drew Adams
2020-01-09  1:03           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-09 23:35             ` arthur miller
2020-01-10  4:58               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-10  9:30                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-01-10 10:01                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-10 17:04                   ` Drew Adams
2020-01-10  9:10               ` Unknown
2019-12-27 17:48 ` Sharon Kimble
2020-01-01  1:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-01  4:45   ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01  5:00     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-01  6:25       ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01 20:34         ` John Yates
2020-01-01 21:19           ` Drew Adams
2020-01-01 21:47           ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-02  1:25         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-02  3:16           ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02  3:45             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-02  5:30               ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 15:41                 ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03  1:07                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-03  3:35                   ` John Yates
2020-01-03  6:38                     ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03  7:06                     ` Drew Adams
2020-01-04  6:39                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-04 16:04                       ` Drew Adams
2020-01-06 14:18                         ` John Yates
2020-01-06 14:34                           ` tomas
2020-01-06 15:19                             ` John Yates
2020-01-06 15:31                               ` tomas
2020-01-06 16:28                               ` arthur miller
2020-01-03  7:00                   ` Drew Adams
2020-01-03 13:31                   ` arthur miller
2020-01-05  2:18                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11  7:36         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11 10:00           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-01-11 11:38             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-11 16:00           ` Drew Adams
2020-01-11 23:46             ` John Yates
2020-01-12  2:47               ` Drew Adams
2020-01-12  7:31             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-12 16:37               ` Drew Adams
2020-01-14  7:08                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-14 17:32                   ` Drew Adams
2020-01-15 23:10                     ` Drew Adams
2020-01-02 17:48     ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-02 17:48   ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-09  3:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-01-15 18:43   ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-01-20 12:40     ` Michael Heerdegen

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