On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:55 AM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

>
> David Talmage writes:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday,  9 Dec 2016 at 15:29, John Kitchin wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > I have an idea for how I could transclude "copies" or links to
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> > Any thoughts? Do you see any potential issues?
> >>
> >> Potentially very interesting and useful idea.  Some thoughts/issues:
> >>
> >>
> > I'm interested in this, too.  In my lab notebook org file, I have a
> section
> > that should be put into its own file and either linked or transcluded in
> > several places.  Transclusion would be better because I could see the
> text
> > without following a link.  It suits my lazy nature. ;-)
>
> It turns out to be pretty easy to see the text; that can be done with a
> simple overlay. What is not easy, is to be able to edit the text, or use
> the text with org-machinery, e.g. org-map-entries. The text in the
> overlay is not visible to the org-machinery, so you can not get
> properties, edit it, etc... Editing could be made possible with a
> special buffer, but it doesn't seem likely that you can make the overlay
> display work with many org-functions.
>
Have you had an opportunity to work o nthis at all?  For my purposes, even
having the transcluded text visible in a buffer + included in an export
would be a major improvement over, say, a link.  attempting to edit would,
I guess, pop up a special narrowed buffer that edits the original text.
Those 3 features together would cover maybe 90% of what I personally need,
so if you have the code for this, I would really love to see it. Thank you!

Matt