From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tassilo Horn Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:38:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87wrpb7unc.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87tykgxqbb.fsf@fastmail.fm> <878w1s7zw8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <871v7k7ydt.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <4CC00391.6050608@easy-emacs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4CC00391.6050608@easy-emacs.de> ("Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6h?= =?utf-8?Q?ler=22's?= message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:10:41 +0200") 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: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Cc: Emacs developers , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik List-Id: emacs-orgmode.gnu.org Andreas R=C3=B6hler writes: Hi Andreas, >> 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... > > common footnote.el was never able to detect if a file opened has > already footnote inside. Didn't check that for some month now... Yes, I've just tried that. Create a file with footnotes, save it, kill the buffer, find it again, add another footnote, and it starts numbering from [1] again. Looks like a bug to me. I'll report it... > 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. Well, I don't have a strong opinion on that. But currently org-footnote.el is not very good when writing mails, because it places footnotes at the end of a buffer. If there's a signature, then footnotes are in that and likely to be removed by people replying to your mail. Bye, Tassilo