From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Mark Edgington <edgimar@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arbitrary lisp functions in column-attributes
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:06:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc06a78z.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20131104T184858-703@post.gmane.org> (Mark Edgington's message of "Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:56:23 +0000 (UTC)")
Hi Mark,
Mark Edgington <edgimar@gmail.com> writes:
> What about it seems too much? Or put differently, what do you think would
> be the negative effects of having something like this possible?
One possible negative effect I can see is that users have to be extra
careful what type of output such functions will produce, so that this
output can be used by a summary type.
> From my (obviously biased) point of view, making it available would mean
> that the dynamic column view becomes much more flexible, and it would reduce
> the need in the future for lots of new hard-coded features/functions to be
> added to the related org-mode code. Instead, features can start out as
> functions which people create and share, and if they become popular enough
> among many people, they can be incorporated as a "built-in" feature that
> comes with org-mode, or as a contributed module.
Yes, I understand this, and my objection is not really technical: this
is just a vague intuition of what traps users may fall in. But I'd say
that we should try every other ways (like Babel, org-collector, etc.)
before going down this road -- and someone will have to implement this
anyway... but that's just not me :) (I don't want to close a door.)
Best,
--
Bastien
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 17:00 Arbitrary lisp functions in column-attributes Mark Edgington
2013-11-04 12:08 ` Bastien
2013-11-04 17:56 ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-05 21:06 ` Bastien [this message]
2013-11-06 5:02 ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-06 8:20 ` Bastien
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2013-10-31 16:41 Mark Edgington
2013-10-31 17:56 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-11-01 19:47 ` Mark Edgington
2013-11-03 22:38 ` Aaron Ecay
2013-11-04 3:09 ` Mark Edgington
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