From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: yet another todo editing system Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:57:39 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055786299 30984 80.91.224.249 (16 Jun 2003 17:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 19:58:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19RyEZ-00080R-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:57:35 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ryc5-0006yO-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19RyFd-0004AV-6g for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19RyFA-0003vC-RV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19RyF5-0003ic-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19RyEd-0003U1-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19RyEd-0004RZ-AF; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:57:39 -0400 Original-To: Joe Corneli In-reply-to: (message from Joe Corneli on Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:44:24 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15131 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15131 > I don't understand what that means in concrete terms. So I cannot > tell whether it would be easy or hard to make Outline mode do this > too. I mean that you can export every Todo file with a certain prefix to html at once very easily. I think that feature is something orthogonal to the features of Outline mode. It might make sense as a separate program (or perhaps there's an existing macro processor you could use). > It might turn out to be useful for editing > code, since you could easily see which functions use the current > function -- though of course you can do that with plain ol' grep too. > > A feature for browsing programs certainly ought to be part of Emacs. One way to think about this feature would be to instantiate a function prototype (a b c) -- as in, (insert &rest ARGS) -- as something like this: ((a "link a") (b "link b") (c "link c")) -- where "link a" points to You have lost me here. You were talking about browsing, and now you're talking about instantiating something. I can't understand what this is all about.