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* combine orgmode and file system browsing
@ 2009-03-21  3:11 Andreas Burtzlaff
  2009-03-21  2:20 ` Sebastian Rose
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From: Andreas Burtzlaff @ 2009-03-21  3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello everyone,

while using orgmode to organize data that is strongly bound to files
and directories, I came to the point where in addition to linking from
the orgfile to the target file/directory I longed to have it the other
way round, i.e. getting information about the files/directories
from the orgfile while browsing the filesystem. That led to the
following idea:

Orgmodes folding and linking capabilities are easily combined to
make rudimentary but comfortable file system browsing:

* [[file:test/dirA][dirA]]
** [[file:test/dirA/subdirA][subdirA]]
*** [[file:test/dirA/subdirA/some_file][some_file]]
** [[file:test/dirA/another_file][another_file]]
* [[file:test/dirB][dirB]]

Attached is a bash-script that generates this representation from a
given subtree of the filesystem as a proof of concept.

For each file/directory displayed search for any link to it in a
given orgfile and
   - provide links back to these occurrences
  and/or
   - display the tags and associated content (read-only).

The obvious weakness inherited from linking itself is synchronization on directory
structure changes. A possible solution would be to store ids as
hidden files for each directory or even for each file that is referred to.

Does anybody else see the benefits of such a mode?

Andreas

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2009-03-21  3:11 combine orgmode and file system browsing Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-03-21  2:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-21  5:12   ` Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-03-23 11:59     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-28 23:54       ` [ANN] org-fstree: insert directory subtrees into org buffers Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-03-29  1:30         ` Cameron Horsburgh
2009-03-29  1:57         ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-29 12:41           ` [ANN] org-fstree 0.2 Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-03-29 17:10             ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-30  6:39               ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-31  9:48                 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-04-01  1:12                   ` Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-04-01  4:22                     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-04-01 23:50                       ` Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-04-03  9:45                         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-04-04  3:01                           ` Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-04-04  3:04                             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-10 19:14         ` [ANN] org-fstree: insert directory subtrees into org buffers Lindsay Todd
2009-06-12  3:56           ` [ANN] org-fstree: insert directory subtrees into org buffers / UPDATE Andreas Burtzlaff
2009-06-18 22:35             ` Lindsay Todd
2009-06-19 12:39               ` Andreas Burtzlaff

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