From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:38:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnigqrr1.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83pmo99sxf.fsf@gnu.org
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>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:29:38 +0100
>> From: cage <cage-dev@twistfold.it>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to see annotate.el
>>
>> https://github.com/bastibe/annotate.el
>>
>> included in NonGNU elpa
> 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.
There is virtual-comment, that seems to come close to requirement b)
but it uses overlays.
The interesting part is that the package discusses other solutions, but alas, I think all
use overlays
The problem with all these solutions is that they are not very stable
and soon or later the associated file .notes file gets corrupted.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-31 7:38 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
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 [this message]
2022-01-30 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-30 17:38 ` cage
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