From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:10:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4CC00391.6050608@easy-emacs.de> References: <87tykgxqbb.fsf@fastmail.fm> <878w1s7zw8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <871v7k7ydt.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <871v7k7ydt.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: Carsten Dominik , Emacs developers List-Id: emacs-orgmode.gnu.org [ ... ] > > Oh, I was pretty sure that org-footnote.el is only a wrapper around the > original footnote.el that comes with emacs, but looking at the code it > seems to be a completely separate facility. > > It says to have "better support for resuming editing" than footnote.el > but be less configurable. Can someone enlighten my what is meant with > that better support for resuming editing? I mean, footnote.el already > provides automatic renumbering which is the only special feature I can > imagine to be of great use when resuming to edit a footnoted document... > > Bye, > Tassilo > > Hi Tassilo, common footnote.el was never able to detect if a file opened has already footnote inside. Didn't check that for some month now... Also org-footnote implemented labeled footnotes, very useful to avoid clashes with forms like list[1] BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, remove the prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for backward-compatibility. cc to emacs-devel for this. Cheers Andreas -- https://code.launchpad.net/~a-roehler/python-mode/python-mode-components https://code.launchpad.net/s-x-emacs-werkstatt/