From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] New function `org-headings-to-point' and displayer.
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:04:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sglz1nig.fsf@red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h82gu8xj.fsf@alphapapa.net> (Adam Porter's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:38:09 -0600")
On 03 Dec 2019, Adam Porter wrote:
>You might consider adjusting your fontification settings. The
>single-line outline path can be quite readable with the right faces (see
>attached example).
That's a useful hint generally, thank you. However, for most of the Org Mode files I work with, the heading lengths are pretty long, so I need vertical stacking in the minibuffer when displaying all the headings down to point.
>I'd recommend against adding more optional arguments to that function,
>because it already has four. Emacs/Org already have enough problems
>with code like (org-whatever nil t nil t nil nil t).
Sure, I can see how that tradeoff might not be worth it.
>> There should also be some way to access the new functionality
>> interactively; the solution might be a new interactive wrapper
>> function with its own name, or maybe some new variables? I don't
>> know; I haven't thought it all the way through yet.
>
>> Is there any interest in or opposition to such a patch? I'd like to
>> get a sense of whether it would be able to land in Org Mode before I
>> start working on it.
>
>I'd recommend simply making a new interactive function, putting it in
>your personal config, and sharing it publicly (e.g. here and on
>/r/orgmode). Use it "in anger" for a while, and solicit feedback from
>other users for a while. Then, if it still seems widely useful enough
>to deserve being added to Org proper, apply what you've learned in the
>meantime to improve and simplify its implementation before proposing a
>patch.
Well, I already posted it here, so that's done. Those functions are publicly packaged (albeit with the `ots-' prefix) here:
https://github.com/OpenTechStrategies/ots-tools/blob/master/emacs-tools/ots.el
Unless you meant make a new interactive function to display a vertical hierarchy and base it on the existing Org Mode functions you informed me of the existence of? But I don't think there's a way to do that without adding some new parameters to those existing functions, and, as you point out, that's probably not worth the extra complexity.
>You might also consider sending it to my "unpackaged.el" repo, which
>might make a good home for it: http://github.com/alphapapa/unpackaged.el
That's a nice collection! I'm enjoying browsing through it.
I effectively already have a personal unpackaged-elisp repository at https://svn.red-bean.com/repos/kfogel/trunk/.emacs (if these functions weren't already in 'ots-tools', they'd be there).
Best regards,
-Karl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-05 3:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 2:56 [PROPOSAL] New function `org-headings-to-point' and displayer Karl Fogel
2019-12-03 7:30 ` Diego Zamboni
2019-12-03 8:47 ` Cheong Yiu Fung
2019-12-03 22:06 ` Adam Porter
2019-12-03 23:34 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-04 2:38 ` Adam Porter
2019-12-05 3:04 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2019-12-05 8:42 ` Adam Porter
2019-12-05 8:47 ` Adam Porter
2019-12-05 22:36 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-03 23:36 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-04 2:20 ` Adam Porter
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