Hello Alan, I think you overlooked one aspect of org-fstree. If you place a link to a file in the org file (outside the region between BEGIN_FSTREE and END_FSTREE), e.g:
* Some note [[file:foobar][foobar]] :someTag: then this heading will show up behind the file in the fstree as a link back: #+BEGIN_FSTREE: some_path ... ** [ ] foobar { [[* Some note][Some note]] } :someTag: ... #+END_FSTREE I see that it could in some cases be comfortable to add notes directly at the file's entry and make them persistent on update. I might write a function that automatically inserts a heading for the currently selected file outside the fstree block, if time allows. I'm looking for a better way to display those links and possibly also the content of the headings and am happy to receive new ideas. I tried the column view, but properties that contain links are displayed as text. Andreas On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:48:37 +1000 "Alan E. Davis" <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Together with the ability to limit the recursions, this is potentially > useful. Thank you. > > A longstanding item on my wishlist has been a Linux implementation of > an old MSDOG workalike, 4DOS with the 4dos shell. That shell worked > alot like "dir" but it kept a field for comments. So, with those > useless msdog 8+3 filenames, one could keep a note, and keep track of > ... Maybe you can get it. > > DIred is pretty good, but I haven't found anything yet to do what I > would like. I just tried typing notes into the org-fstree buffer of a > directory listing. It was pretty nice, not what I want exactly, but > it could be useful in some cases. > > Except for at least one thing: refreshing the directory deleted my > notes. For example: > > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/org-help][org-help]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/ARCHIVE][ARCHIVE]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/orgcard][orgcard]] Hmmm..????? > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/Journal][Journal]] ??? > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/plotting][plotting]] my experiments > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/LaTeX][LaTeX]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/Classes][Classes]] Working directory maybe > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/MEMO][MEMO]] location of memo > composition bits > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/data][data]] attachments > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/auto][auto]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/org-extra][org-extra]] better to keep > the extra bits here for portability? > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/org-plot][org-plot]] gnuplot and R > plotting, I think > > > Now when I refresh: > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/Classes][Classes]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/MEMO][MEMO]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/data][data]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/auto][auto]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/org-extra][org-extra]] > *** [D] [[file:/home/ulod/org/org-plot][org-plot]] > > Do you suppose this could be solved easily? > > Thanks again, > > Alan Davis > > "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need > for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (John > William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist. > > It is undesirable to believe a proposition when > there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. > ---- Bertrand Russell > > > _______________________________________________ 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