From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: David Talmage <david.talmage@shoutpoint.com>,
Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: transcluding some org-elements in multiple places
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:26:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN_Dec8OkZ3tYEkGaWb-YW3Veo-u=COqrMgBoAD_EcmmBKJ4OA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2shpqo3fz.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local>
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:55 AM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
>
> David Talmage writes:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues?
> >>
> >> Potentially very interesting and useful idea. Some thoughts/issues:
> >>
> >>
> > I'm interested in this, too. In my lab notebook org file, I have a
> section
> > that should be put into its own file and either linked or transcluded in
> > several places. Transclusion would be better because I could see the
> text
> > without following a link. It suits my lazy nature. ;-)
>
> It turns out to be pretty easy to see the text; that can be done with a
> simple overlay. What is not easy, is to be able to edit the text, or use
> the text with org-machinery, e.g. org-map-entries. The text in the
> overlay is not visible to the org-machinery, so you can not get
> properties, edit it, etc... Editing could be made possible with a
> special buffer, but it doesn't seem likely that you can make the overlay
> display work with many org-functions.
>
Have you had an opportunity to work o nthis at all? For my purposes, even
having the transcluded text visible in a buffer + included in an export
would be a major improvement over, say, a link. attempting to edit would,
I guess, pop up a special narrowed buffer that edits the original text.
Those 3 features together would cover maybe 90% of what I personally need,
so if you have the code for this, I would really love to see it. Thank you!
Matt
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2016-12-09 16:28 ` transcluding some org-elements in multiple places Eric S Fraga
2016-12-14 15:55 ` David Talmage
2016-12-14 16:55 ` John Kitchin
2017-01-05 13:26 ` Matt Price [this message]
2017-01-05 16:37 ` John Kitchin
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[not found] ` <m2zij5qbci.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local>
2017-01-06 2:17 ` Matt Price
2017-01-06 2:19 ` John Kitchin
2017-01-06 14:30 ` Matt Price
2016-12-09 15:29 John Kitchin
2016-12-16 0:26 ` Matt Price
2016-12-16 16:51 ` Matt Price
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