David O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really like the region idea. However it could be very tricky to > implement. The annotations in the radio file would be matched to > regions in the target file. So presumably we save the region's > coordinates in the radio file along with its annotation. We can use > markers and overlay properties to keep these data consistent in the > face of changes that happen in an Emacs buffer, but if a file can > change outside Emacs (i.e. annotating a shared file in version > control) then we have a problem
Of course, you're right. Maybe the easy solution would be to implement two ways of annotating: region-wise or pseudomarker-wise. You would annotate regions in files that are not supposed to change (e.g. pdftotext'ed text files) and you would "insert" annotations in texts that are likely to change. The process I have in mind for first kind of annotations is something like this: 1. you're in your text buffer (file.txt) 2. M-x org-remember 3. Use a template that knows about the filename and the region When you open file.txt, you can turn org-annotation-minor-mode on, and *see* whether the text is annotated. The minor-mode would do this: 1. fetch annotations in files that are reached by M-x org-remember 2. put an overlay on these regions (if a region is annotated twice, show this by modifying the overlay - maybe different colors) What do you think? > But maybe I am missing an obvious solution---can you give more details > on the GPLv3 thing you are referring to? See this: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gfdl-draft-1.html As you can see, commented regions get colored. More commented ones are darker. It would be *really* nice if we could implement something like this in Emacs, with Org. The one thing I currently miss in Emacs is the ability to annotate a file and directly see those annotations in the buffer. -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
