Re: Org Writer's room

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On 07/12/12 13:57, Matt Price wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 06/12/12 16:51, Matt Price wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 12/06/12 20:09 PM, Matt Price wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> This sounds like an interesting project.  My advice is to make a few
>>>>>>>>>> screenshots that give people an idea what you are working towards. Of course,
>>>>>>>>>> they could be completely fake, but it would be helpful to understand for
>>>>>>>>>> people like me who haven't used Scrivener.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I would also like to see this.  It sounds nice when I read your description,
>>>>>>>>> but I still don't fully appreciate the idea.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> –Rasmus
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do you see
>>>>>>>> as making org a *way* better writing environment?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> To start with I would like to just replicate this window structure, because it
>>>>>>> keeps you focused on writing, while having the larger structure available if you
>>>>>>> feel the need to flit around a bit.  The third screenshot shows a semi-fake, still
>>>>>>> very primitive version of what I'd like to have.  (I haven't figured out a good way
>>>>>>> to do the metadata yet).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I *really* like the idea of having a right-hand pane available showing properties
>>>>>> around the current point -- it could include properties from the PROPERTIES drawer,
>>>>>> from the structure returned by `org-element-property', text properties, and maybe
>>>>>> properties of the current headline parent. I'm sort of envisioning what you get from
>>>>>> the "inspect element" command in Firefox.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For the left-hand pane, org-toc and org-panel in the contrib directory (or even the 
>>>>>> org-goto interface) might provide some inspiration.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ugh, sounds like a lot of work.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> those are 3 powerful tools I hadn't used before.  org-toc not working for me at the
>>>>> moment though, there might be something wrong with my .emacs setup...
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, some of that's out of date. Actually, since Org looks like it will be slowly
>>>> migrating over to a basis on org elements, that's probably a good direction to look. 
>>>> `org-element-parse-buffer' will return a data structure for the current buffer that would
>>>> be ideal for creating a tree visualization.
>>> 
>>> hmm, just looked at the output of that command and the data structures look like:
>>> 
>>> (headline (:raw-value "The Function of Copyright" :begin 489 :end 610 :pre-blank 0
>>> :hiddenp outline :contents-begin 517 ...) (section (:begin 517 :end 610 :contents-begin
>>> 517 :contents-end 610 :post-blank 0 :parent #1)))
>>> 
>>> Those integers are char numbers in the buffer -- would this list then have to be updated
>>> for every character stroke?  Hmm, I also can pretty much see how to get each :raw-value and
>>> turn it into text that's presented in a buffer... but I don't understand how to associate
>>> that text with the existing headline in an org file.  Speedbar seems like a much easier
>>> option, but while the org-mode parser is nowworking for me(yay!) I can't make the
>>> same-frame package work (sr-speedbar)!  Gosh darn it!
>>> 
>>> ANyway,  thanks eveyrone, I'm going to keep needing help on this so if you have more 
>>> suggestions please keep them coming..
>> 
>> Looking forward to the right side of the three... As the left side is using existing
>> packages, could you post the commands needed to make it work? I only have it on the right
>> side, and I assume you are using hooks to start sr-speedbar?
>> 
> 
> I don't have the speedbar interface running properly yet (no time the last couple of days).
> sr-speedbar is not working right for me, so I am tryng some code from emacswiki (which is also
> posted in various places around the web):
> 
> http://emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeedBar#toc1

OK - waiting for news on this front. For the time, I will be using the sr-speedbar.

> 
> I'm noticing a few issues:
> 
> - at least on my machine, it's not easy to click on a heading that has subheadings.  THe trick
> is probably to make some improvements to the underlying org/speedbar integration.

True - works only for the "last" headers.

> - when speedbar is running in the same frame as other windows, it isn't so good at determining
> where it should open new buffers. Binding the clicks to my writers-room-pop-buffer function
> should fix that. - the builtin speedbar browsers are awesome, but I think it would be better to
> have a stripped-down interfacd that only showed the project you're working on. I guess the way
> to do that would be to extend speedbr with a new major or minor mode.  ( 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/speedbar/Major-Display-Modes.html#Major-Display-Modes
>
> 
).  It doesn't look that ocmplicated but I need to learn a bunch
> before I do it...

Agreed - would be very useful.

> 
> All the code I have (not much)  is still available at the github repo I posted at the beginning
> of this thread, https://github.com/titaniumbones/org-writers-room/
> 
> I tried adding some speedbar stuff but it's very very rough!  If you feel like improving it --
> that would be just super...  In any case go ahead and try it ou.  It doesn't do much and I'm
> pretty sure it an't do any harm to your files, but I would love some feedback.  Thanks,

I unfortunately know nothing about elisp so I won't be of any help here, except testing.
If you announce some testable versions, I would be happy using them and give feedback.

Cheers,

Rainer


> Matt
> 


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