Anthony Chaumas-Pellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [bongo-devel] Re: Bongo marking and selecting random tracks > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:07:02 +0200 > >> Did you find intuitive the way marks currently work in Bongo? >> I am very interested in this kind of usability information. >> >> Not an unreasonable expectation, but --- I believe --- a >> more unnatural expectation than its opposite. Marks are >> semantically much like non-rectangular active regions. > > Once I found out about marks, they were intuitive enough; > I had been using isearch-occur with regexpes before that > (I'm a regexp junkie).
Hmm. That must be very similar to marking a bunch of tracks and extracting them with the `o' command I posted. Right? > That may explain why I expected marks to act pretty much > like an interactive Occur buffer - that is, by taking > virtual slices out of a playlist. I see. I think. Hey, did you know about the `% m' command? >> I appreciate the demand for this functionality, but I don't >> want to install the mark solution in Bongo. >> >> Please use Daniel Jensen's advice (posted in this thread) if >> you want the behavior in question. > > I've added that feature in mine own breed of Bongo, though > it is integrated in a Darcs patch instead (mostly because > I'm tracking the Darcs repo very aggressively). Ah, of course. Cool! >> Right! Note that you can already do this. Just create a >> new empty buffer and run `M-x bongo-playlist-mode' or find a >> file called something ending in `.bongo-playlist'. > > What I am missing at present is a way to "tie" the loose > buffers together; I'll give my thoughts on the subject > once I've used multiple playlists some more, though. You are definitely on to something here. There's a lot to be said about that subject. >> Did you grab that one? (Use `darcs pull'.) > > I guess I did the 'darcs pul' (I'm laziness incarnate) Haha! > shortly before you sent in your patch, or there was some > latency, or I simply forgot to reload bongo.el after > fetching the patch. The MIME patch works properly now. Okay, great. :-) >> I just meant what you are talking about. Some way to say >> which tracks are to be played during automatic playback. > > I like that one very much. Has it been discussed before on > the mailing list so that I can read it up? No, I don't recall any discussion about this. -- Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ bongo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bongo-devel
