On 2009-01-05 19:41:09(+0100), Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote: > > >>>>>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 08:23:04 +0100, Carsten Dominik > >>>>>> <domi...@science.uva.nl > >>>>>> > said: > > > > CD> I think it would be better not to use the remember buffer for this, > > CD> but another, dedicated, temporary buffer. > > > > Why would it matter though? You're already opening and displaying it... > > Granted, you could stop doing that. > > > > The only benefit to using another buffer is if the person canceled the > > request (ctrl-g) in mid-selection then the original contents of the remember > > buffer would be unaltered. > > There are more reasons why it matters. > > It is possible to make setup that will pop up the remember buffer in a > different/new frame, but you might still want to have the template selection > in your current frame. Also, it is allowed to call org-remember again in an > existing remember buffer, to apply a new template to the existing context.
Also, the template selection interface needs to be usable when there is no remember buffer, as it is also used to select a template to jump to the last note stored using that template. > Most of all, it is much cleaner this way. A dispatcher splash screen is by > definition a one-off temporary buffer. Creating and displaying temporary > buffer is very cheap and easily done, and it is the standard way to do this > kind of stuff. > > I have reasonably strong feelings about this, because at the beginning of my > career, I did work with legacy computer codes which where done in the old days > when dynamic allocation was not possible and computer memory was small, so > people would write programs where the same vector was used for different > purposes, in different locations of the program... :-) Agreed. -- |-<James TD Smith>-<email/ahktenz...@mohorovi.cc>-| _______________________________________________ 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
