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From: peter.frings@agfa.com
To: mail@christianmoe.com
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: idea, in-line preview link
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:02:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873E233A-DDED-4E0F-9FC0-4F2B4B4387DE@agfa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7D881D.2050500@christianmoe.com>

Good day all,

On 05 Apr 2012, at 13:55, Christian Moe wrote:

> One of my first Lisp projects was a link type that behaves a bit like what you describe.
> 
> I don't bother with placing the snippet inline, though, I just flash it as a message in the minibuffer. But I also leave it on the kill ring, so I can C-y it into my current buffer if I like.

From a UX pov, changing the clipboard/kill-ring behind the user’s back is a bad thing to do, especially when the intention of the user action is only to have a quick look at that link. Suppose org-mode copied a whole sub-tree when all you did was to expand it... just in case you wanted to copy a piece of it.

In my opinion, it’s better to provide an explicit command to copy/insert/open/... the content of that link.

Cheers,
Peter.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-05  9:04 idea, in-line preview link Torsten Wagner
2012-04-05 11:55 ` Christian Moe
2012-04-12 12:02   ` peter.frings [this message]

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