Re: camel.el, for CamelCase links

From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Re: camel.el, for CamelCase links
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:45:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Luf=EB8NxnFm1X21Op5e4ivvvj=HTnJFoYP+r@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8BCA074-E917-4C1A-99CA-83FF94301428@gmail.com>

Hi guys -- I have pulled the last version from the repo which include
org-wikinodes, but I don't see the line for the org-wikinodes module
when customizing the org-modules variable. What should I do?

Marcelo.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Bastien wrote:
>
>> "David O'Toole" <dto1138@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> http://github.com/dto/folio/blob/master/camel.el
>>>
>>> Someone asked about this recently, i have some partially working code.
>>
>> I'm willing to test.
>>
>> Can you provide the handlers so that the code works for Org?
>>
>> I'm not a big fan of CamelCase links because it encourages the habit of
>> creating many files -- but that may be useful for some.
>
> I am not a big fan of CamelCase for two reasons:
>
> 1. as Bastien says, to creates many small files.  Org does work
>   with a number of files - I think it is less than perfect for a very
>   large number of files.  If you want to create many files, David O'Toole's
>   implementation might work for you - also it is not limited to Org files.
>
>
> 2. Using CamelCase does encourage to write stuff in strange, hard to
>   read syntax which conflicts with some words or names that should not
>   be spelled like this, and which also does not look very good on export.
>   THis is why most wikis have either stepped away from CamelCase, or added
>   additional syntax, for example with brackets.
>
> In fact, for Org mode, it seems more natural to use outline nodes for the
> structure of a wiki, not files.  Russel Adams suggested this in another
> thread:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/27442/focus=27465
>
> With the change I just made to make [[..]] links match exact headlines and
> to offer headline creation when no match is found, I do find it simple
> enough to type [[My Heading]] or [[file:xyz.org::My Heading]]
>
> I have toyed with CamelCase in the past though.  And since there seems
> to be at least some interest, I have just wrapped this code into a
> contributed package and linked it properly into the hyperlink and
> export mechanisms in Org.  The modules is called org-wikinodes.el
> and it is documented here:
>
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-wikinodes.php
>
> - Carsten
>
>
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