From: Ivan Andrus <darthandrus@gmail.com>
To: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-writers-room sort of works! just in time for NaNoWriMo
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 00:07:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <673BE3CF-22F6-473E-A26E-0CF6F717681E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_Dec99Ec5KzMQ7v=WMs=1RRTOXbzteaVtKNP7drD2tFzGdOA@mail.gmail.com>
Looks cool. I already opened one issue on github. :-)
-Ivan
On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just pushed a more-or-less-working version of my "Org Writer's
> Room" mode to github:
>
> https://github.com/titaniumbones/org-writers-room
>
> It's a very simple set of mostly-trivial minor modes that creates a
> Scrivener-like writing environment for org users. put
> org-writers-room.el in your load path, load or require it, and then,
> in an org-mode file, type M-x org-writers-room. This will close all
> but one of your existing windows, split the remaining window into 3
> columns, and populate them as follows:
>
> - left-hand column contains your unnarrowed original org file.
> Ideally it should be org-global-cycle'd to "children" but I can't see
> how to instruct org-cycle or org-global-cycle to set visibility to a
> particular level. (I would also like to have the entire "PROPERTIES"
> drawer and ALL NON-HEADING CONTENTS of the heading hidden at all
> times, but I can't figure that out either).
> - wide center column contains an indirect buffer narrowed to the
> subtree at point in the main buffer.
> - right-hand column contains a second indirect buffer narrowed to the
> properties drawer of the subtree at point.
>
> In the left-hand column, press C-c C-x b or just RET on a heading to
> "activate" it and place its contents in the other two columns.
>
> It could definitely be a lot better but it's not so terrible! It
> allows you to have an overview of the project as a whole, a clean view
> of the section you're writing at the moment, and a look over at the
> metadata -- the "back of the index card" from Scrivener -- to remind
> you of what you're trying to do in the setion you're currently
> writing.
>
> I would really like to make the metadata part more robust, with maybe
> some functions that let you edit the property values without touching
> the property names, and perhaps some fontlock trickery to make it look
> prettier. Siilarly, I'd like to do a bit more with the guide and evne
> with the main section. Eventually, I'd also like to make it
> compatible with zotero-plain so I can start to use citations properly
> in org-mode instead of inserting them post-facto in libreoffice
> (ugh!). But for now I'm pleased it works at all.
>
> I would love it if people would try it out. It should be much more
> stable than the last, awful version I posted some months ago. The
> code is very simple and mostly just
>
> (1) rewrites the org functions for dealing with indirect buffers, so
> that the indirect buffers don't need to be clones of the parent buffer
> (2) changes some keybindings
> (3) sets up the stable window configuration described above.
>
> I would really love it if some other people would try it out, and (oh
> please!) suggest/implement improvements. I am well aware of my
> terrible coding limitations.
>
> Thank you,
> matt
>
> PS, the readme on github is a little out of date, but the code itself
> is mostly documented so I hope that helps. Though there's no general
> documentation at the top of the file -- oops, sorry.
> <org-writers-room.png>
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-01 4:00 org-writers-room sort of works! just in time for NaNoWriMo Matt Price
2013-11-01 6:07 ` Ivan Andrus [this message]
2013-11-01 6:08 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-11-01 9:07 ` Ian Barton
2013-11-01 14:13 ` Matt Price
2013-11-01 14:12 ` Matt Price
2013-11-01 14:45 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-11-01 18:28 ` Alan L Tyree
2013-11-03 3:38 ` Matt Price
2013-11-04 1:10 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <CAN_Dec-+rQSqcDcjpFo9MsfuvK3Fc0bRDrMe_NR232XtcguUXg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <87a9hkjcli.fsf@gmail.com>
2013-11-05 9:54 ` Matt Price
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