Re: Marking/highlighting text temporarily

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Eric S Fraga writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I have been following this whole thread with great interest, having
> posted very early on the use of inline tasks as a solution for the OP.
>
> I use inline tasks a lot for both annotations and for TODO tasks when
> writing papers.  I like the link syntax proposed but would much prefer
> something that includes tasks as well as comments.
>
> What is missing, by the way, with the proposed link based comment syntax
> that inline tasks give is the ability to find them quickly within a
> (large) document.  Maybe I missed this functionality in what has been
> proposed.  Inline tasks are easy to find using C-c / t...

There is in org-comment a command `org-comment-display-comments' which
will generate a buffer you can see all the comments in, and from that
pop to a comment, delete it, etc...

>
> And to add to yet another element of the discussion, I have no problem
> with the [[comment:X][Y]] in the sense of X being hidden in normal view.
>
> Back to your regular programming :)
>
> thanks,
> eric

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