Re: Org and Hyperbole

[Robert Weiner <rswgnu@gmail.com>]

Good idea, Juan.  I’m all for quick ways to activate buttons without losing your current context.  I’ll take a look at how we might support this as an optional load.

-- Bob

> On Jun 25, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Robert,
> 
> Robert Weiner writes:
> 
>> We do like avy and as you say, Hyperbole can work with it.  We try to
>> avoid requiring any non-builtin Emacs packages for Hyperbole.  With a
>> few, we support them optionally.  Unless there is a strong use case
>> for utilizing avy in certain ways, we would tend to leave that to
>> others to extend Hyperbole but personally I just add it in and use its
>> character and line navigation sometimes.  Did you have any particular
>> uses in mind?
> 
> My use of the mouse within Emacs is practically nonexistent, and outside
> of Emacs I have relegated the mouse to a few graphical applications such
> as Gimp, Krita, Scribus, and little else. That's why I find avy
> extremely handy for quickly navigating through text. By adding an action
> to avy-dispatch-alist you can execute an arbitrary command once the
> cursor has jumped to its target. For example, I have put this for
> hyperbole in my init:
> 
> (add-to-list 'avy-dispatch-alist '(?: . (lambda (pt)
>                      (goto-char pt)
>                      (hkey-either))))
> 
> Thus, the typical action to activate a 'far' hyperbole button would be:
> 
> 1. Call avy and insert a letter;
> 
> 2. When avy's hints are displayed in the screen, I hit the colon key ":"
> and then the hint letter I want to go to (an implicit button, for
> example). And at the moment the associated action of that button is
> executed.
> 
> For those of us who hardly use the mouse, it is really very practical,
> and I think maybe mentioning that tip might be nice in the hyperbole
> documentation.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Juan Manuel