From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Exploring a code base? Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:52:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <57dcdf06-3bf4-4281-88d9-0e9c46adc757@yandex.ru> <83d00p6zj1.fsf@gnu.org> <837dqx6x65.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36359"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yIrunRAD1nLmcryCw3qTS1ZOlpE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 16:52:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kbQW8-0009MI-Td for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:52:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60502 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kbQW7-0001aP-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kbQVg-0001aE-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:52:12 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:59812 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kbQVe-0007uw-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2020 10:52:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kbQVa-0008oI-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2020 16:52:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/07 10:52:06 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125093 Archived-At: > Yes, this is almost word for word what Yuri explained in his first mail, and > Stefan in his reply. Yuri says that doing this is "tedious", Stefan that it > is "not satisfactory". So the question is: could this not be automated with > a kind of stack or list of searches, in which one could navigate, instead of > using a separate flat or structured text file? BTW, I think the solution should likely not be connected to "code" in any way. Fundamentally, the same problem can appear where you're reviewing a text document (tho it's admittedly less common). So, all that's needed, I think, is some way to be able to maintain a stack/tree of annotated bookmarks, with a command to "add an element" which can be used from any buffer, and then some way to view the tree and modify it. Most likely, all it takes is a command which adds an entry to some "central" Org file (probably a TODO entry) and another to quickly display that Org file. Stefan