Hi Robert, Robert Weiner <r...@gnu.org> writes:
> Oantolin no doubt can speak to Embark much better but my present > understanding is that it is a toolkit package for generating contextual > popup or completion menus with a few standard context menus included. > > Hyperbole is a much broader personal information management > environment, one part of which is to turn every common type of > cross-reference found in buffers from programming identifiers to > page links into immediately useable hyperlinks with no effort > or markup on your part (implicit buttons). I struggle to understand the core difference between Embark and Hyperbole. In terms of Embark, the context around point is called /target/. So if the target is a filename, then the default action is to visit the file. If the default action is not what you want, then Embark can present you with a context menu - you can choose amongst the actions that can be executed on the file, like deleting it or locating it in a dired buffer. In terms of Hyperbole, the contextual information is called /implicit button/. Pressing M-RET on it sounds very much the same as executing the default action in terms of Embark. Embark defines the following targets: file, symbol, URL, s-expression, defun, etc. It seems it is conceptually the same as implicit buttons in Hyperbole. Is this correct?
