From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kitchin Subject: Re: How to have a controllable popup? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:45:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87oa8xufer.fsf@skimble.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52506) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avSak-0000UO-Pn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:45:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avSah-0000P2-FP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:45:34 -0400 Received: from mail-qg0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::230]:33064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1avSah-0000Oy-AS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:45:31 -0400 Received: by mail-qg0-x230.google.com with SMTP id f92so19563592qgf.0 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:45:31 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87oa8xufer.fsf@skimble.plus.com> 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" To: Sharon Kimble Cc: org-mode-email 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. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu