Re: Proposal: references from code to text.

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

interesting package!  but i'm not sure it would work with org as well
as org-link-minor-mode does.

On 5/16/18, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> You might want to check out linkd: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/linkd.el
>
> It does a lot of what you describe independently of org-mode.
>
> John
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> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> i'm not sure if i understand the goal.  is it babel-only?
>>
>> this email might be off-topic.
>>
>> what i want is links, using something like org-id,
>>
>>   - from non-org [for example, a link in file.el in a comment]
>>   - to non-org [for example, a named or id'ed location in the same file]
>>   - or to org [e.g. an org-id'ed org entry, or a named or id'ed
>> location in a babel block]
>>
>> that can be, if needed, effectively, bidirectional.  thus, you could
>> document a function in file.el using a subtree in main.org and bounce
>> between the function and the documentation because there is a link for
>> each.
>>
>> non-org [e.g. file.el] can be an original file [i.e. no babel
>> anywhere] or the result of tangling from babel.
>>
>> i find that org-link-minor-mode is /highly/ useful for the non-org
>> part of this, but it doesn't support all of the above functionality
>> automatically.
>>
>> i'd want a general package that is like org-link-minor-mode, but takes
>> care of supporting the user by creating good ids and links as needed.
>>
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>


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