No particular reasons, it is somewhat low in the priority list right now. There are a lot of experiments in there that I got to a point useful for me, but maybe not to others, and dependencies on helm and ivy that aren't common in org. I would probably like a better cache mechanism, etc.
John ----------------------------------- 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 On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:41 PM Daryl Manning <dwm+orgm...@wakatara.com> wrote: > This looks impressive. Thanks! I need to spend some time with it but loos > like I can definitely steal stuff from what you’ve done for my use-cases. > > Out of curiosity, since this looks superior, why did you not > fork/contribute PRa to .org-contact to fold these into the package. > > thanks again! > Daryl. > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 18:24, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> > wrote: > >> I use https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/contacts.el for >> something like this. There are helm/ivy interfaces in there for doing >> things like you describe. Mostly I use it to fill in email fields in >> messages. >> >> >> Daryl Manning <dwm+orgm...@wakatara.com> writes: >> >> > I'm trying to figure out a way to hotkey bringing up a minibuffer in >> > ivy/ivy-rich much as I would with say `C-x b/k` for switching/killing >> > buffers, but allowing me to filter down to a contact and then, when >> > selected, have that put a `C-c l` link into a document for them. >> > >> > Is there any way to do this? org-contacts documentation is light and >> while >> > there is a search function in there, having trouble bending it as much >> as >> > I'd like to my will (see previous message about a week's notice on >> > birthdays/anniversaries) though I like the fact it's nice and >> lightweight >> > and seems to do most of what I want within the workflow I've sort of >> > created for myself ( >> > https://daryl.wakatara.com/a-better-gtd-and-crm-flow-for-emacs-org-mode >> ) >> > >> > Anyone have any idea or tips on how they've handled that? >> > thanks! >> > Daryl. >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> >
