Re: Org-cite: Replace basic follow-processor with transient menu?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Tor-björn Claesson <tclaesson@gmail.com> writes:

> (defcustom org-cite-basic-follow-actions
>   '[["Open"
>      ("b" "bibliography entry" org-cite-basic-goto (list (transient-scope) 0))]    
>     ["Copy"
>      ("d" "DOI" org-cite-basic-follow.copy-doi)]
>     ["Browse"
>      ("u" "url" org-cite-basic-follow.browse-url)]]
>   "Hepp"
>   :group 'org-cite
>   :type 'sexp)

Since we can now allow pretty much a custom suffix definition, what
about adding a bit of syntax sugar to the format.

Rather than doing

   ("b" "bibliography entry" org-cite-basic-goto (list (transient-scope) 0))

we can allow

   ("b" "bibliography entry" (org-cite-basic-goto !citation !prefix))

where !citation and !prefix can be pattern-matched and automatically
replaced with the appropriate values.

> (transient-define-prefix org-cite-basic-follow (citation &optional prefix)
>   [:class transient-columns
>    :setup-children org-cite-basic-follow--setup
>    :pad-keys t]
>   (interactive)
>   (if org-cite-basic-follow-ask
>       (transient-setup 'org-cite-basic-follow nil nil
>                        :scope (list citation))
>     (org-cite-basic-goto citation prefix)))
>
> Here I removed activating the transient menu if a prefix argument is
> present. If org-cite-basic-follow-ask is nil (the default) and I want
> to call org-cite-basic-goto with a prefix argument, this would cause the
> transient menu to activate, which seems wrong.

I would still prefer some way to force transient version of the command
in some way. I see it very useful for some people to set the proposed
`org-cite-basic-follow-ask' to nil _most of the time_, but occasionally
switch to transient version for non-standard operations.

Maybe we can utilize some other rarely used prefix argument to force
transient menu.

Say, something like C-- C-u <key sequence>. This will make prefix
argument have a value of '(-4).

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