From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:48:24 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87ejovkqmc.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171316997 26673 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2007 21:49:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:49:57 +0000 (UTC) To: , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 22:49:50 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGj3W-0007Br-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:49:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGj3V-0008HH-TV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGj3J-0008Gz-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGj3I-0008GI-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGj3I-0008GF-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:36 -0500 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGj3H-0000tI-M9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (rgmgw2.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.111]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l1CLnWHV029433; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:49:33 -0600 Original-Received: from rcsmt251.oracle.com (rcsmt251.oracle.com [148.87.90.196]) by rgmgw2.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l1CLJbAg001604; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:49:32 -0700 Original-Received: from 141.144.82.0 by rcsmt251.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2443305051171316905; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:48:25 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87ejovkqmc.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Importance: Normal X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41143 Archived-At: > Lisp alone could get you a long way, if you're comfortable with it. > If all you are doing is applying tags (i.e. an open-ended set of > categories) to spans of text, you need something that stores > structures like '(filename start end tag) [for text in FILENAME > from point START to point END, tag it with TAG]. You could use > completion functions to enter the tag, to remind you of what you've > already used. This assumes the source texts are immutable, of > course, otherwise start and end become unreliable. Sorry, I have no idea what this is all about, but your description makes me think that Icicles tagged regions might help. They are a persistent set of named start and end locations, together with buffer names (which can be filenames). And you can use completion with them. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Multiple_Regions.