From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:10:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC00391.6050608@easy-emacs.de> References: <87tykgxqbb.fsf@fastmail.fm> <878w1s7zw8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <871v7k7ydt.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287655064 14927 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 09:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Carsten Dominik , Emacs developers To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 11:57:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8ru2-0007RM-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:57:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40102 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8rEO-0003C0-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:14:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43403 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8rBf-0001UA-7d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:11:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8rBT-0006aF-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:11:40 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:49456) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8rBS-0006a5-OO; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:11:39 -0400 Original-Received: from noname.home (brln-4dbc643a.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.100.58]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MfDvq-1OyV2a3WCA-00PCqp; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:11:35 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: <871v7k7ydt.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:qFBJFdg2bLcjx9SN+OlNY0n5Hsk1017F5qtkrCiWPCi MattCXWvatTgWR/DSGBm0rNPTxtZlnNUbGjDHcppcvKOnOJx3+ oPRiIkoNN9JvgKkgiKwBN2uQnpVGvobxUA6yUalmnzARzMV52m CnWz5aMyjonEPSZAV/MUQPq4jO5s0SohkuAy1TIOMRUrgitpcQ PI3skFF2L6zlko8g82oBSDzoBdt0ujb+Hydv92AolU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131931 gmane.emacs.orgmode:32246 Archived-At: [ ... ] > > Oh, I was pretty sure that org-footnote.el is only a wrapper around the > original footnote.el that comes with emacs, but looking at the code it > seems to be a completely separate facility. > > It says to have "better support for resuming editing" than footnote.el > but be less configurable. Can someone enlighten my what is meant with > that better support for resuming editing? I mean, footnote.el already > provides automatic renumbering which is the only special feature I can > imagine to be of great use when resuming to edit a footnoted document... > > Bye, > Tassilo > > Hi Tassilo, common footnote.el was never able to detect if a file opened has already footnote inside. Didn't check that for some month now... Also org-footnote implemented labeled footnotes, very useful to avoid clashes with forms like list[1] BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, remove the prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for backward-compatibility. cc to emacs-devel for this. Cheers Andreas -- https://code.launchpad.net/~a-roehler/python-mode/python-mode-components https://code.launchpad.net/s-x-emacs-werkstatt/