From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Price Subject: Re: Org Writer's room Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:09:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lidc6nc1.fsf@pank.eu> <50BFEA73.2050309@gmail.com> <87fw3jfvqf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgaGa-0005e1-Pn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:09:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgaGT-0005bW-KY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:09:24 -0500 Received: from mail-qc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:49963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgaGT-0005ah-Gg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:09:17 -0500 Received: by mail-qc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id t2so3799646qcq.0 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:09:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87fw3jfvqf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> 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: Eric Abrahamsen Cc: Org Mode On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Eric Abrahamsen w= rote: > Matt Price writes: > >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote= : >>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: >>>> >>>> Andrew Hyatt writes: >>>> >>>>> This sounds like an interesting project. My advice is to make a few >>>>> screenshots that give people an idea what you are working towards. >>>>> Of course, they could be completely fake, but it would be helpful to >>>>> understand for people like me who haven't used Scrivener. >>>> >>>> I would also like to see this. It sounds nice when I read your >>>> description, but I still don't fully appreciate the idea. >>>> >>>> =96Rasmus >>>> >>> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do = you >>> see as making org a *way* better writing environment? > > [...] > >> To start with I would like to just replicate this window structure, >> because it keeps you focused on writing, while having the larger >> structure available if you feel the need to flit around a bit. The >> third screenshot shows a semi-fake, still very primitive version of >> what I'd like to have. (I haven't figured out a good way to do the >> metadata yet). > > I *really* like the idea of having a right-hand pane available showing > properties around the current point -- it could include properties from > the PROPERTIES drawer, from the structure returned by > `org-element-property', text properties, and maybe properties of the > current headline parent. I'm sort of envisioning what you get from the > "inspect element" command in Firefox. > > For the left-hand pane, org-toc and org-panel in the contrib directory > (or even the org-goto interface) might provide some inspiration. > > Ugh, sounds like a lot of work. > those are 3 powerful tools I hadn't used before. org-toc not working for me at the moment though, there might be something wrong with my .emacs setup...