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
