Re: org-info.js: new navigation history

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:52 PM, Sebastian Rose wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> just cannot resist posting this here:

Why would you even consider to resist? :-)

this is really great, I missed the possibility to go back to the most  
recent position.

- Carsten


>
> The navigation of org-info.js has been improved quite a bit.
>
> 1.) Navigating a file through org-info.js, either using the mouse or
>     using the keyboard, modifies the location. Thus, once you left
>     the file by following a link somewhere else, your browser's `back'
>     button will bring you back to the point you left the file.
>
> 2.) org-info.js now navigates accross files. If those files both use
>     org-info.js, you can navigate back and forth. Because of the new
>     technique in 1.), both files nearly feel like beeing one and the
>     same file. Thus following links in published files feels like
>     following footnotes and returning to the context.
>
>     Example:
>
>     Once you reach the end of the internal history, repeatedly
>     pressing `B' or `b' takes you forward and back in the browsers
>     history.
>
>     - open one of your published org files.
>     - press `n' until a you reach a section, that has a link to  
> another
>       file in your published tree.
>     - follow the link by clicking on it.
>     - in the other file, navigate using `n' and `p'...
>     - go back in the navigation history using `b'
>     - repeat this, until org-info.js brings you back to the file you
>       opened in step 1. Note, that you see the same section you saw
>       just before leaving the file by following the link.
>     - Now press `B' until org-info.js brings you to the other file
>       again.
>
> One flaw though: the internal history is lost when returning to a
> file.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>  Sebastian
>
>
>
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