From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Advice on studying Emacs Lisp files Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:59:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87fvbdhvpv.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421272800 15769 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2015 22:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:00:00 +0000 (UTC) To: Marcin Borkowski , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 22:59:54 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YBVyi-0008Qp-2D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:59:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBVyh-0007hf-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBVyT-0007hT-AU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:59:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBVyP-0005fJ-A5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:59:37 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:44355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBVyP-0005fA-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t0ELxVcR030433 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59:32 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0ELxVww008082 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59:31 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0001.oracle.com (abhmp0001.oracle.com [141.146.116.7]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t0ELxTmU016366; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:59:30 GMT In-Reply-To: <87fvbdhvpv.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102075 Archived-At: > so I started a personal project of code reading. I would like to start > with (standard) Emacs files. >=20 > However, here's a problem: I'd like to take notes while I'm studying. > And it's no surprise that I'd like to use Emacs to do this. For obvious > reasons, I don't want to make my notes in the files themselves (as > comments). OTOH, if I copy them to some personal directory, I lose the > ability to use find-function (which will jump to the original files). >=20 > Do you have any suggestions for a good workflow for that? I might use > Org-mode (and links), but it would involve jumping between buffers, > which might not be optimal. Maybe someone has a better idea? You can bookmark locations, and use annotations for your notes. If you use Bookmark+ then you can use Org mode for the annotations.