Interesting. I could see some interesting extensions to it. I use button-lock to alert me to interesting (to me) text in my buffers a lot, which is a little less intrusive. For example, any names in my org-contacts are highlighted in a light pink background with a context tool tip and made clickable to access functions like open the contact, email the contact, etc... This is done with a large regexp pattern through font-lock, but it would be interesting do that with some kind of asynchronously run function that doesn't get in my way. I have not used functions in font lock yet, but I think it can be done.
When you say trawled, is this with some indexing tool, or something you wrote? Eric S Fraga writes: > On Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 at 16:18, John Kitchin wrote: >> That looks very cool. Do you use it? > > yes but only when I have a large enough monitor, e.g. on my 24" portrait > monitor I use for writing. > > it can be useful every now and again, especially as I have both org > documents and emails trawled for keywords. The email aspect is not as > good as it could be due to people including all previous emails in > replies so there is a lot of duplication. I tend to start the agent > when I start writing a paper or a grant proposal and then forget about > it until I need to find something. I then look at what remem is > suggesting just in case. > > Other than screen space, it doesn't get in the way. -- 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