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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.



  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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