From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org-mode as a bug tracker.
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:02:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eisf16bn.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ocrjuphq.fsf@fastmail.fm>
At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:35:29 -0500, Matthew Lundin wrote:
>
> > I don't know how to deal with attachments.
> > Attachments, for me, are usually ephemeral and usually types of
> > documents I don't particularly like to deal with (typically MS Word or
> > PPT).
>
> I believe org-attach achieves this end admirably. When you use
> org-attach to "attach" a document to a headline, it will deposit the
> file (or, if you prefer, a link to the file) in a location defined by
> the variable org-attach-directory. The file and the headline are linked
> via a global id property. You can open the file from the heading to
> which it is attached by calling org-attach again.
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
>
> Obviously, if these files are ephemeral, you can leave the
> org-attach-directory outside of your version control system.
Thanks for your input on this, Matt. That approach (using a directory
outside my version control hierarchy) makes sense. It sort of
emulates what I'm doing already which is to use explicit links to
files. Time to play...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-17 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 15:34 Org-mode as a bug tracker Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-17 16:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-17 17:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2009-07-17 18:35 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-07-17 19:02 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2009-07-18 10:46 ` Bastien
2009-07-19 21:12 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-20 6:18 ` Bastien
2009-07-20 14:15 ` JBash
2009-07-20 14:35 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-18 10:46 ` Bastien
2009-07-20 23:26 ` OrgmodeOrg-mode " Wes Hardaker
2009-07-20 23:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2009-07-21 6:01 ` Bastien
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