Re: How to have a controllable popup?

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

It sounds like helm could do what you want.

Here is an example of making a simple helm source:
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/01/24/Anatomy-of-a-helm-source/

I guess you would run M-x your-helm-command where you want it, and the
information would appear in a helm buffer. you select what you want and
make it get inserted.


Sharon Kimble writes:

> I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this or if I should be
> looking elsewhere for it, so sorry if its the wrong place.
>
> I'm converting a large latex file of 780 pages when its in a pdf file,
> but I'm converting from latex to org-mode. I'm also taking the
> opportunity of revising it and standardising it. And I'm also rebuilding
> the bibliography database held in a bib file.
>
> So I have a section in the org-mode file which has the old bibliography
> index number alongside the new number. How can I have a popup just
> showing those numbers which I can look at and then input a certain
> number into the main body of the file, and then close the popup until I
> need to call it again? The popup would need to be scrollable and appear
> in the right third of the page.
>
> I've tried to set it up with workgroups, and also tabs of the relevant
> files next to each other in tabbar, but neither of these really worked.
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.


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