From: Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com>
To: Andrea Lazzarini <andrea.lazzarini1@gmail.com>
Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [FR] Enhancing footnote managment (via indirect buffer)?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 16:29:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg5vmhv8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Andrea Lazzarini <andrea.lazzarini1@gmail.com> writes:
> I've fiddled with org-edit-special and I see it has a major flaw, at least in my opinion.
> It inserts all changes without keeping track of the undos, as opposed to the indirect
> buffer solution, which also had the advantage of doing everything from a single buffer:
> it operates as some sort of 'window' on a part of the file, rather than feeling as some
> sort of out-of-the-normal operation. Aren't there other possibile use cases for indirect
> buffers in org mode? Why are they considered inferior to other solutions? I ask just
> for my understanding.
>
> (A combination of eldoc + org-edit-special might be rather affecting on the
> seamlessness of the workflow, but this is of course my simple personal opinion).
I've been playing with org-footnote-assistance, and this is again just
another opinion, but I'm also preferring the indirect buffer. It just
puts things in better perspective.
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next reply other threads:[~2023-05-23 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 10:59 Payas Relekar [this message]
2023-05-24 9:03 ` [FR] Enhancing footnote managment (via indirect buffer)? Ihor Radchenko
[not found] ` <990C578F-176B-4166-868C-0BC59759CC19@gmail.com>
2023-05-26 9:08 ` Fwd: " Andrea Lazzarini
[not found] ` <877cria8f9.fsf@localhost>
2023-07-03 15:32 ` Andrea Lazzarini
2023-07-03 16:19 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-02 10:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-12-09 11:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-26 9:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-05-22 9:30 Andrea Lazzarini
2023-05-22 11:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-22 13:58 ` Andrea Lazzarini
2023-05-22 15:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-23 9:38 ` Andrea Lazzarini
2023-05-24 10:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
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