Hi Alan, Thanks for sharing this! It looks very useful. I'll take a look at it and get back to you soon.
Best, Matt "Alan E. Davis" <lngn...@gmail.com> writes: > Matthew: > > There's an interest in org-help.org? Would there be any question about > its inclusion in org? No. It's currently in a state of disarray, > however. Here are some of my thoughts about its current state. As I > mention below, I may be able to clean it up this Summer. > > I am afraid I got bogged down, for a number of reasons. I am > stubborn, and don't want to admit defeat, but it would be even better > if someone who really understands org-mode was able to carry it > forward. And I have some ideas about improving it, but haven't had > time or focus to get it done. I'll attach a current copy, but there > are quite a few sections added, esp. at the end, that were gratuitously > personal notes as I was learning certain features. If this were on > some kind of git repo, I'd be interested in working off of it, and I'd > learn to submit a patch, perhaps. > > One thing I thought about is the keystroke compatibility issue, that it > would be really nice if it worked like info. As it is, it is an > editable file, and I end up having to kill it to avoid overwriting it > with some junk, when I use it. The folding status is not persistent, > another nice thing to have (from info). > > The file opens up as a folded top-level outline. The various headlines > I have set up to be links to the manual pages about the same topic. At > I tried to have one or two main keybinding clues present in the folded > view at least headline. So a clue to the keybindings, and a link to > the manual. Even lower level headlines may have manual links. That > particular feature I like *a lot*! > > I have gotten a bit lost with many of the new features, like babel, and > haven't kept up on some of those. I was clueless about agenda, but > have begun to use it quite a bit, so at some point I worked on that > section, but it's a miasma, a tangled mass, at this point, and I should > have to clean that up. This is an example of a section I started to > work on when I was learning a certain feature or set of features. > > So I guess that main caveat at this point is that it's become a > personal help file, and more and more personal as time goes on. Summer > comes I would at some point clean it up. > > I assigned it to a key. For my key-binding setup, it worked ok to > assign it to "C-c 7". Maybe better to set it on a viewing mode, but I > have been prone to hack as a go. > > Be all that as it may be, here is the "current" state of the file on my > system. > > Alan. > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Matthew Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> > wrote: > > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > no, org-help.org is not about the FAQ, it is a separate document, > like > > a quick reference, made by Alan Davis. It is more than the > refcard, > > less than the manual. > > > > It seems to live here: > > > > http://osdir.com/ml/attachments/orgF54hhOaC48.org > > > > Get in touch with Alan at lngn...@gmail.com Maybe with some > feedback > > between the two of you, we will have a way to ship this with > Org-mode > > and to link it in. > > Great! I will contact Alan Davis about including org-help.org in > the > distribution. > > - Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode