From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:14:09 +0800 Message-ID: <87r3r3873i.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87a8xyrn39.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87bnieufde.fsf@mbork.pl> <87zj5xewsp.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <87iockmyxy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87bnicshhc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r3r57zre.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lhhb2uot.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87h9rz5kav.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42099) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnQt1-0004Cq-Og for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:14:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnQsy-0007aj-GE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:14:43 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37396) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YnQsy-0007af-9B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:14:40 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YnQst-0002oI-Sq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:14:36 +0200 Received: from 114.248.23.63 ([114.248.23.63]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:14:35 +0200 Received: from eric by 114.248.23.63 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:14:35 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Rasmus writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Would this be eligible? > > Not that my .02€ are worth much, but I think the idea of inline notes is > good, but I don't think it should be done using links. See e.g. the > discussion on citation which introduced a [cite:⋯] command. A [comment:⋯] > command would also IMO make much more sense than [[comment:X][Y]] as was > allowed last time I read your patch (in the weekend, I think). Wow, I just went back and looked at the cite thread. That was bewildering. I don't see a direct connection here, though -- cite was needed for very specific academic purposes, with very clearly-defined needs. Comment is much floppier: good for anything from notes-to-self, to notes-to-editor, to notes-to-no-one. *None* of the complexity is in the format itself: if you unloaded org-comment, the comment links would be perfectly human-readable. All of the complexity is in helper functions for manipulating them. I suppose it would be possible to define some non-link syntax for them, but why do that when the link syntax works perfectly well? > On inclusion in contrib I think you can put anything org-ish there. It's > better if the copyright is cleared in case we want to make it part of > core, but it's not necessary. There's little difference between core and > contrib as neither are included in Emacs and thus are hard to rely on. > > Since you use cl-lib (last I checked) it could not be part of Org before > 8.4. Ah, that's a good point. cl-lib isn't necessary, just convenient, and could be removed. Thanks, Eric