How to have a controllable popup?

How to have a controllable popup?

[Sharon Kimble]

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I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this or if I should be
looking elsewhere for it, so sorry if its the wrong place.

I'm converting a large latex file of 780 pages when its in a pdf file,
but I'm converting from latex to org-mode. I'm also taking the
opportunity of revising it and standardising it. And I'm also rebuilding
the bibliography database held in a bib file.

So I have a section in the org-mode file which has the old bibliography
index number alongside the new number. How can I have a popup just
showing those numbers which I can look at and then input a certain
number into the main body of the file, and then close the popup until I
need to call it again? The popup would need to be scrollable and appear
in the right third of the page.

I've tried to set it up with workgroups, and also tabs of the relevant
files next to each other in tabbar, but neither of these really worked.

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: How to have a controllable popup?

[John Kitchin]

It sounds like helm could do what you want.

Here is an example of making a simple helm source:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/01/24/Anatomy-of-a-helm-source/

I guess you would run M-x your-helm-command where you want it, and the
information would appear in a helm buffer. you select what you want and
make it get inserted.


Sharon Kimble writes:

> I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this or if I should be
> looking elsewhere for it, so sorry if its the wrong place.
>
> I'm converting a large latex file of 780 pages when its in a pdf file,
> but I'm converting from latex to org-mode. I'm also taking the
> opportunity of revising it and standardising it. And I'm also rebuilding
> the bibliography database held in a bib file.
>
> So I have a section in the org-mode file which has the old bibliography
> index number alongside the new number. How can I have a popup just
> showing those numbers which I can look at and then input a certain
> number into the main body of the file, and then close the popup until I
> need to call it again? The popup would need to be scrollable and appear
> in the right third of the page.
>
> I've tried to set it up with workgroups, and also tabs of the relevant
> files next to each other in tabbar, but neither of these really worked.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.


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Re: How to have a controllable popup?

[Sharon Kimble]

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John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> It sounds like helm could do what you want.
>
> Here is an example of making a simple helm source:
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/01/24/Anatomy-of-a-helm-source/
>
> I guess you would run M-x your-helm-command where you want it, and the
> information would appear in a helm buffer. you select what you want and
> make it get inserted.
>

Thanks John, I've been able to make a work-around by using tabbar-ruler
to create tabs and then copy my 'reference list' into a small temporary
buffer which is next to my working document so its easy to switch too. I
can add reference numbers to it and at the end of the day I copy them
back into my main reference list. I'm finding the org-mode document is
ideal for keeping urls, and also reference notes at the end of the
document after my latex command ending the document.

Thanks
Sharon.

>
> Sharon Kimble writes:
>
>> I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this or if I should be
>> looking elsewhere for it, so sorry if its the wrong place.
>>
>> I'm converting a large latex file of 780 pages when its in a pdf file,
>> but I'm converting from latex to org-mode. I'm also taking the
>> opportunity of revising it and standardising it. And I'm also rebuilding
>> the bibliography database held in a bib file.
>>
>> So I have a section in the org-mode file which has the old bibliography
>> index number alongside the new number. How can I have a popup just
>> showing those numbers which I can look at and then input a certain
>> number into the main body of the file, and then close the popup until I
>> need to call it again? The popup would need to be scrollable and appear
>> in the right third of the page.
>>
>> I've tried to set it up with workgroups, and also tabs of the relevant
>> files next to each other in tabbar, but neither of these really worked.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sharon.
>
>
> --
> 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

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