From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org Writer's room
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:15:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqwve06e.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec_g_hJU3HN9NikK73iCxRRfKCrbabRzQ7=grWV=DfaKGQ@mail.gmail.com> (Matt Price's message of "Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:09:17 -0500")
On 12/06/12 20:09 PM, Matt Price wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This sounds like an interesting project. My advice is to make a few
>>>>>> screenshots that give people an idea what you are working towards.
>>>>>> Of course, they could be completely fake, but it would be helpful to
>>>>>> understand for people like me who haven't used Scrivener.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would also like to see this. It sounds nice when I read your
>>>>> description, but I still don't fully appreciate the idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> –Rasmus
>>>>>
>>>> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do you
>>>> see as making org a *way* better writing environment?
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> To start with I would like to just replicate this window structure,
>>> because it keeps you focused on writing, while having the larger
>>> structure available if you feel the need to flit around a bit. The
>>> third screenshot shows a semi-fake, still very primitive version of
>>> what I'd like to have. (I haven't figured out a good way to do the
>>> metadata yet).
>>
>> I *really* like the idea of having a right-hand pane available showing
>> properties around the current point -- it could include properties from
>> the PROPERTIES drawer, from the structure returned by
>> `org-element-property', text properties, and maybe properties of the
>> current headline parent. I'm sort of envisioning what you get from the
>> "inspect element" command in Firefox.
>>
>> For the left-hand pane, org-toc and org-panel in the contrib directory
>> (or even the org-goto interface) might provide some inspiration.
>>
>> Ugh, sounds like a lot of work.
>>
> those are 3 powerful tools I hadn't used before. org-toc not working
> for me at the moment though, there might be something wrong with my
> .emacs setup...
Yeah, some of that's out of date. Actually, since Org looks like it will
be slowly migrating over to a basis on org elements, that's probably a
good direction to look. `org-element-parse-buffer' will return a data
structure for the current buffer that would be ideal for creating a tree
visualization.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 16:01 Org Writer's room Matt Price
2012-12-05 23:08 ` Andrew Hyatt
2012-12-06 0:22 ` Rasmus
2012-12-06 0:44 ` Alan L Tyree
2012-12-06 2:21 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 7:12 ` Scot Becker
2012-12-06 8:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-06 8:36 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 9:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 9:14 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:28 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:51 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 11:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:55 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 11:58 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:50 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 12:07 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 12:26 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:59 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:09 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 14:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2012-12-06 15:51 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 8:39 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-07 12:57 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 13:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 4:21 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 18:18 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
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