[Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el (was: A few questions about how you write e-mails)

2010-10-21 Thread Tassilo Horn
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: Hi! Hm, I don't use org-mode and its functions when writing mails using Gnus, but I enable footnote-mode in message-mode and then call `Footnote-add-footnote' and friends directly.  That adds footnotes before the signature just as you want.  

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Andreas Röhler
[ ... ] Oh, I was pretty sure that org-footnote.el is only a wrapper around the original footnote.el that comes with emacs, but looking at the code it seems to be a completely separate facility. It says to have better support for resuming editing than footnote.el but be less configurable. Can

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Tassilo Horn
Andreas Röhler andreas.roeh...@easy-emacs.de writes: Hi Andreas, Oh, I was pretty sure that org-footnote.el is only a wrapper around the original footnote.el that comes with emacs, but looking at the code it seems to be a completely separate facility. It says to have better support for

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Tassilo Horn
Tassilo Horn tass...@member.fsf.org writes: common footnote.el was never able to detect if a file opened has already footnote inside. Didn't check that for some month now... Yes, I've just tried that. Create a file with footnotes, save it, kill the buffer, find it again, add another

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Nick Dokos
Tassilo Horn tass...@member.fsf.org wrote: BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, remove the prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for backward-compatibility. Well, I don't have a strong opinion on that. But currently org-footnote.el is not very good

Re: [Orgmode] Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el

2010-10-21 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Nick Dokos nicholas.do...@hp.com writes: How does footnote.el find the signature? I presume by looking for the line -- which precedes the signature. Charles -- I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you. (By Vance