From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: cage-dev@twistfold.it, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 20:24:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fsp59j5a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvv8y1qh04.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:20:32 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:20:32 -0500
>
> > FWIW, I wish Emacs had in core a mode that would allow adding notes
> > (a.k.a. "annotations") to files, which (a) didn't use overlays that
> > display in the text area, but instead displayed the notes in the
> > margin and/or in tooltips; and (b) would save the notes of FILE into a
> > FILE.notes file, not into a single DB under the user's home directory.
> > I think it would be a very useful feature that every text-processing
> > package should have built-in.
>
> Note that beside this `annotate.el` that's also `org-remark.el` recently
> added to `elpa.git` which offers similar functionality, but similarly
> suffers from the use of absolute file names to connect the notes and
> the file.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I guess people are happy with this situation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-30 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-30 12:29 NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode cage
2022-01-30 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-30 16:02 ` cage
2022-01-30 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-30 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-01-31 17:50 ` Noboru Ota
2022-01-31 3:14 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-31 4:03 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-31 7:38 ` Uwe Brauer
2022-01-30 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-30 17:38 ` cage
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