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From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@shoulson.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-pop-mode
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:05:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af32f000-436c-cc33-7501-918d1a8c3ef5@kli.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo7hzd7g.fsf@alphapapa.net>

On 3/18/20 3:15 PM, Adam Porter wrote:
> "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@shoulson.com> writes:
>
>> This is something I've wanted for years in org-mode, but which in some
>> ways could actually be _offensive_ to its ideals.  If you're an
>> outline purist, look away.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> So, I present a pre-alpha version,
>> https://gist.github.com/clsn/09ac4b098b6ad7366bb5e0bc88882d5f of
>> org-pop-mode.  To "pop" back up, create a headline at the level you're
>> popping back to, and give it a tag of "contd", and the headline text
>> should not be something important.  Instructions and explanations are
>> in the comments of the file (the part about installing from MELPA is a
>> lie, though).
>>
>> Any feedback?
> Hi Mark,
>
> Indeed, this is something that is frequently asked about.  I probably
> wouldn't use it myself, but it looks like you've done a good job on it.
> Here is some feedback:
>
> 1.  I'd suggest a more descriptive name, especially if you plan to
> publish it to MELPA.  org-pop doesn't seem to convey anything about what
> it does.  :)

Heh; fair enough.  The filename originally was "org-level-end.el", I 
think; I started using the catchier "org-pop" because... well, it was 
catchier.  It made sense in my mind, in the "push"/"pop" sense used with 
stacks in programming, that you "push" to a deeper level and this 
library would allow you to "pop" back up to a higher one.  I'll see if I 
can think of something better, thanks.

> 2.  In the code, I saw you comment about cl-flet, and I see you using
> fset and unwind-protect in the org-pop-with-continuations macro.
> Instead, use cl-letf with symbol-function, like:
>
>    (cl-letf* (((symbol-function 'foo)
>                #'my-foo)
>               ((symbol-function 'bar)
>                (lambda ()
>                  ...)))
>      BODY)
>
> See also Nic Ferrier's package, noflet.

I'll take a look, thanks.  It's questionable whether I really should 
even be messing about with that macro anyway.  I must have removed the 
comments, but I had a whole thing there about how I had been trying with 
cl-letf and/or cl-flet and it didn't work. Thing is, cl-flet, according 
to the docs, (info:cl#Function Bindings) is strictly *lexical* binding, 
which is not going to cut it.  cl-letf might be different; the docs are 
different about it, but I am pretty sure I tried it and it didn't work, 
or didn't work "enough of the time."  But maybe I had it wrong, and 
maybe noflet will succeed.

Thanks!

~mark

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-18  2:33 org-pop-mode Mark E. Shoulson
2020-03-18  7:00 ` org-pop-mode Ihor Radchenko
2020-03-18 19:57   ` org-pop-mode Mark E. Shoulson
2020-03-22 14:58   ` org-pop-mode Mark E. Shoulson
2020-03-22 18:15     ` org-pop-mode Ihor Radchenko
2020-03-18 19:15 ` org-pop-mode Adam Porter
2020-03-18 20:05   ` Mark E. Shoulson [this message]
2020-03-18 20:24     ` org-pop-mode Adam Porter
2020-03-18 20:52       ` org-pop-mode Mark E. Shoulson

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