Re: searchable refcard?

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten, Alan & Co,
>>
>>
>> sorry for not following this thread closely. If the idea here is deleted
>> from your list already or is not feasable, just ignore it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Refcard as info file
>> ====================
>>
>>  How about maintaining the extended refcard as a second texinfo file?
>>  After the install, we would have two resulting info files: org and
>>  org-refcard.
>>
>>  We could then bind a key to some `org-open-ref-card' function, that
>>  simply calls (info "(orgrefcard)").
>
>
> If this would be done in info format (i.e. TexInfo), then it could
> simply be part of the manual itself and info could jumpt to that
> particular node in the manual.


Yes, true. Since the info file comes with org-mode, it would be a
natural way to do this IMO. It's so simple to search in info, since C-s
searches accross sections and even files.


>> Context help
>> ============
>>
>>  As for help in general:
>>
>>  How about binding a key (e.g. `C-c h') to a function calling (info
>>  &optional file-or-node) to get context-help while in an org-file?
>>
>>  (info "(org)tags")                      if on a tag,
>>  (info "(org)properties and columns")    if in `#+COLUMNS' line
>>
>>  ...and so on.
>>
>>  Often more than one section will match, so a mapping would be needed
>>  as well, as some sort of completion.
>
> I do like that idea.


It's the only feature MS-Office and openoffice.org have, that's
not in Org-mode yet :-)


Just courious:

How would I reveal the context at point?
Would I use those predicates as `org-at-xxx-p'?


Best,

  Sebastian

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