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.