From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Taru Karttunen <taruti@taruti.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: cannot edit two source code examples simultaneously
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 12:12:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A49BDA75-8C25-40AB-B034-DE43B4910468@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1242627915-sup-1869@oz.taruti.net>
On May 18, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Taru Karttunen wrote:
> Excerpts from Dan Davison's message of Mon May 18 09:07:11 +0300 2009:
>> I think it's more complicated than that: source code loss is also the
>> motivation for doing something like this. If you are editing the
>> code in
>> the *Org Edit Src* buffer, and get distracted, you may return to
>> the org
>> buffer and mistakenly decide that it contains the latest content.
>> I've
>> done that two or three times in the last couple of days, resulting in
>> lost work. That mistake cannot be made so easily when there is only
>> ever
>> one current copy of the code. If you close emacs without C-c ', or
>> your
>> laptop power runs out, then I agree that is bad, but I thought
>> perhaps
>> there might be a good solution along these lines. Maybe an
>> alternative
>> would be to maintain a work-in-progress message along with the
>> out-of-date code?
>
> How about this - set the source code with a special overlay/property
> when editing it. The property could turn the code into a link to the
> buffer and set it read-only.
This sounds like a good idea. However, it seems that putting a read-
only property using an overlay does not work - does anyone know why?
I'd prefer an overlay over text properties here....
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 5:38 cannot edit two source code examples simultaneously Hsiu-Khuern Tang
2009-05-16 17:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-17 17:28 ` Dan Davison
2009-05-18 5:38 ` Taru Karttunen
2009-05-18 6:07 ` Dan Davison
2009-05-18 6:27 ` Taru Karttunen
2009-05-18 10:12 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-05-18 15:23 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-18 17:40 ` Dan Davison
2009-05-18 10:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-19 0:32 ` Hsiu-Khuern Tang
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