From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alan E. Davis" Subject: Re: org-annotate/collaboration? Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 20:43:52 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87wpd02b3s.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fujnuigr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c0df21cd4a8c6054825bf6a Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32859) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc34B-0003ps-OT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:44:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc34A-0006EU-HN for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:44:15 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c0c::235]:35938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cc34A-0006Db-6t for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:44:14 -0500 Received: by mail-wr0-x235.google.com with SMTP id k90so98709837wrc.3 for ; Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:44:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fujnuigr.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Eric Abrahamsen Cc: org-mode --94eb2c0df21cd4a8c6054825bf6a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your thoughtful, incisive responses are appreciated. It's hard to imagine why that simple expedient---a directory listing with a comment field---has failed to catch hold. It was incredibly useful. Thanks Alan Davis On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > "Alan E. Davis" writes: > > > I am looking for something a little different than this: annotated ls > > listings. I have been searching blindly for years for this. > > > > Back in the 90s was a Dos clone called 4dos, which featured directory > > listings with annotations, such that typing whatever the command was > > (dir?), gave a listing with the file name just like "dir" but also a > > description of the file. > > > > It was exceedingly useful for me, in keeping track of a large number > > of files. I have never seen anything like it. > > > > Could org-annotate fulfill at least part of this requirement? (I have > > posted to this list a similar question quite some years ago.) > > org-annotate could do the annotation part of it, but really that part > pales compared to the challenge of creating and maintaining directory > listings in Org. Doing it once would be easy, but tracking > additions/deletions/renames in the directory sounds like a *lot* of > work, not to mention making sure the annotations follow the correct > entry. > > I suppose if you *only* edited the directory listing through custom > commands you implement from Org mode you could keep it under control, > but still... Some challenges energize you when you start imaging how to > solve them. Others make you exhausted just thinking about them! > > Eric > > > --=20 [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. =E2=80=A6The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ---Albert Einstein "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_ --94eb2c0df21cd4a8c6054825bf6a Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Your thoughtful, incisive responses are apprecia= ted.=C2=A0 It's hard to imagine why that simple expedient---a directory= listing with a comment field---has failed to catch hold.=C2=A0 It was incr= edibly useful.=C2=A0

Thanks

Alan Davis
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On Thu, Feb 9, 20= 17 at 2:07 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
"Alan E. = Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com&= gt; writes:

> I am looking for something a little different than this: annotated ls<= br> > listings.=C2=A0 I have been searching blindly for years for this.
>
> Back in the 90s was a Dos clone called 4dos, which featured directory<= br> > listings with annotations, such that typing whatever the command was > (dir?), gave a listing with the file name just like "dir" bu= t also a
> description of the file.
>
> It was exceedingly useful for me, in keeping track of a large number > of files.=C2=A0 I have never seen anything like it.
>
> Could org-annotate fulfill at least part of this requirement?=C2=A0 (I= have
> posted to this list a similar question quite some years ago.)

org-annotate could do the annotation part of it, but really that par= t
pales compared to the challenge of creating and maintaining directory
listings in Org. Doing it once would be easy, but tracking
additions/deletions/renames in the directory sounds like a *lot* of
work, not to mention making sure the annotations follow the correct
entry.

I suppose if you *only* edited the directory listing through custom
commands you implement from Org mode you could keep it under control,
but still... Some challenges energize you when you start imaging how to
solve them. Others make you exhausted just thinking about them!

Eric





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"Sweet instr= uments=C2=A0hung up in cases. . . keep the= ir sounds to themselves."=C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0
=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0= =C2=A0---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
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