From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Wales Subject: Re: Automatic Update of Org files Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:40:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20524da70902051440qd49dd48p7a5da8ff2a22670f@mail.gmail.com> References: <498B623A.4080000@advantest-ard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCx1-0007Gx-2K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:44:03 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCwx-0007EE-SP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:44:02 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47714 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVCwx-0007E0-L8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:43:59 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f16.google.com ([209.85.219.16]:63353) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVCwx-0006UB-1E for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:43:59 -0500 Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so191074ewy.8 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:43:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <498B623A.4080000@advantest-ard.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: m.elston@advantest-ard.com Cc: Org Mode List IIUC, source is not under your complete control. You need it orgified but also annotated. There are various annotation mechanisms. My comments on the remember redesign might be relevant. You could consider going backward. Have your org file contain links to the read-only stuff. Put entry IDs in the read-only stuff. Dunno if this helps. Here is something I had lying around: Another feature is to have org-registry show on the mode line when a link points to the current buffer's object (w3m page, file, dired, etc.). You click on it to go to the org file link. See my remember suggestions in a previous thred for more re annotations, bookmarks, and registry. I proposed this before: === snip Extension #2 to the bookmark idea. My idea is to always have annotations available for emacs-w3m, dired, files, like org-annotate-file, just with more modes. You can see in the mode line that whatever buffer you are in has an annotation, and you can make an annotation. You can also go to the annotation. The annotations are stored in an org file anywhere in the hierarchy. Thus, if you want, annotations on a doctor's web site can be stored in the entry for that doctor that is in your org file. If you visit that web site from any source, even Google, the mode line says that it is annotated. Then you can pull up that entry with a command. Likewise with files or dired or whatever. For example, you can comment org.el or /etc/passwd without having to modify them. Remember code seems a plausible place to arrange for choosing a location and putting a note into it. Annotations are like bookmarks with text that also go the other direction. It's natural to combine the idea of a bookmark and the idea of an annotation. You might want the mode line to say "there is bookmark to this (web page, file, etc.)" as one character and "there is a text note about this" as another character. Thus, if you have annotated a file and the file is unmodified, you will see "-u:--!!" and if you have merely bookmarked the location without commenting on it, then you will see "-u:--!-". === snip -- For personal and corporate gain, myalgic encephalomyelitis denialists are knowingly causing massive suffering and 25-years-early death by grossly corrupting science. http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm