From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Advice on studying Emacs Lisp files Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87d26hhuk3.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> References: <87fvbdhvpv.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421274166 4575 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2015 22:22:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:22:46 +0000 (UTC) To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 23:22:41 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 1YBWKm-0002EY-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48354 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBWKl-0008B3-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBWKZ-0008Ay-RP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBWKW-0004Ns-F9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:33633) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YBWKW-0004NW-8i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:22:24 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285C147F10 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wr7ehqS0ICJH for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (117-116.echostar.pl [213.156.117.116]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D38F847F02 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:22:22 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:808:114:2::50 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:102077 Archived-At: On 2015-01-14, at 22:59, Drew Adams wrote: >> so I started a personal project of code reading. I would like to start >> with (standard) Emacs files. >> >> 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). >> >> 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. That's interesting, thanks a lot! I will definitely check that out, I had no idea about this functionality. I'll have to check whether these bookmarks/annotations are somehow visible in the buffer they point to. Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University