Re: tagging text, not headlines

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:03:01PM -0500, 42 147 wrote:
>
> It would be nice to keep things in the org-style (e.g., :favorite song: is
> preferable to "<--- favorite song," just on rudimentary aesthetic grounds.

I often put in my own cookies inside floawing text.  For example, I
label doubts in my notes with a "(?)".  In the example below, I have a
doubt about comment 2.

  Some statement
  - Comment 1
  - Comment 2 (?)

Then I can easily look for it with occur or grep from the commandline.
If you want fontification for cookies like above, you can try something
like this (untested):


  ;; font-lock customisations
  (defface my-global-tag-face
    '((t (:background "royalblue4" :foreground "thistle" :weight bold)))
    "Face for the global tags."
    :group 'my-faces)

  (add-hook 'find-file-hook
  	  (lambda ()
  	    (font-lock-add-keywords
  	     nil '(("\\<[ (]\\([a-zA-Z0-9]\\+\\)[) ]\\>"
  		    1 'my-global-tag-face prepend)))))


Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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