Re: Suggestion with bad patch for org-remember-templates

[James TD Smith <ahktenzero@mohorovi.cc>]

On 2009-01-05 19:41:09(+0100), Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>
> >>>>>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:23:04 +0100, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl
> >>>>>> > said:
> >
> > CD> I think it would be better not to use the remember buffer for this,
> > CD> but another, dedicated, temporary buffer.
> >
> > Why would it matter though? You're already opening and displaying it...
> > Granted, you could stop doing that.
> >
> > The only benefit to using another buffer is if the person canceled the
> > request (ctrl-g) in mid-selection then the original contents of the remember
> > buffer would be unaltered.
>
> There are more reasons why it matters.
>
> It is possible to make setup that will pop up the remember buffer in a
> different/new frame, but you might still want to have the template selection
> in your current frame. Also, it is allowed to call org-remember again in an
> existing remember buffer, to apply a new template to the existing context.

Also, the template selection interface needs to be usable when there is no
remember buffer, as it is also used to select a template to jump to the last
note stored using that template.

> Most of all, it is much cleaner this way. A dispatcher splash screen is by
> definition a one-off temporary buffer. Creating and displaying temporary
> buffer is very cheap and easily done, and it is the standard way to do this
> kind of stuff.
>
> I have reasonably strong feelings about this, because at the beginning of my
> career, I did work with legacy computer codes which where done in the old days
> when dynamic allocation was not possible and computer memory was small, so
> people would write programs where the same vector was used for different
> purposes, in different locations of the program... :-)

Agreed.

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