From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: emacs & org mode for scholars questions Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:39:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55dbff57.2491420a.591b6.5304@mx.google.com> <87si777604.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <877foil7lr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42790) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUY7L-0002OI-Jx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:39:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUY7I-000611-19 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:39:43 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22a]:33177) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUY7H-00060x-Sa for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 06:39:39 -0400 Received: by qkch123 with SMTP id h123so110759780qkc.0 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 03:39:39 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <877foil7lr.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Cc: Erik Hetzner , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot, which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my org-contacts are highlighted in a light pink background with a context tool tip and made clickable to access functions like open the contact, email the contact, etc... This is done with a large regexp pattern through font-lock, but it would be interesting do that with some kind of asynchronously run function that doesn't get in my way. I have not used functions in font lock yet, but I think it can be done. When you say trawled, is this with some indexing tool, or something you wrote? Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 16:18, John Kitchin wrote: >> That looks very cool. Do you use it? > > yes but only when I have a large enough monitor, e.g. on my 24" portrait > monitor I use for writing. > > it can be useful every now and again, especially as I have both org > documents and emails trawled for keywords. The email aspect is not as > good as it could be due to people including all previous emails in > replies so there is a lot of duplication. I tend to start the agent > when I start writing a paper or a grant proposal and then forget about > it until I need to find something. I then look at what remem is > suggesting just in case. > > Other than screen space, it doesn't get in the way. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu