is there a mailing list for embark? On 6/24/22, Robert Weiner <r...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi João: > > Oantolin no doubt can speak to Embark much better but my present > understanding is that it is a toolkit package for generating contextual > popup or completion menus with a few standard context menus included. > > Hyperbole is a much broader personal information management > environment, one part of which is to turn every common type of > cross-reference found in buffers from programming identifiers to > page links into immediately useable hyperlinks with no effort > or markup on your part (implicit buttons). > > Hyperbole includes a large array of implicit buttons and context > awareness, rather than expecting you to write your own solutions > to all of your needs. It is more turn-key. One appendix in the > Hyperbole manual is filled with all the contexts and associated > actions that Hyperbole supports out of the box: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/hyperbole/man/hyperbole.html#toc-Smart-Key-Reference-1 > > Other features include: named hyperbuttons accessed from any > buffer, advanced contact management or hierarchical record > searching (point HyRolo at Org files and you can find single > entries within hierarchies), automatable frame and window > management, action triggers from mouse drags, Org hyperbutton > activation outside of Org mode, easy menu-based exposure of > Emacs filtering and searching capabilities, quick grid-based > display of desired buffers or files. Hyperbole puts your textual > information at your fingertips in a myriad of ways, just as Emacs > makes text editing convenient and flexible in a myriad of ways. > > Like Emacs, you are expected to grow into a broad away of uses across time, > not to digest all at once or in your first month of use. But by learning > and combining > capabilities, you can become masterful at managing your information and Org > can > be a big part of this journey as well. > > Enjoy. > > -- rsw > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 1:57 PM João Pedro <jpedrodeamo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey Robert. Thanks for coming here to offer to clarify any doubts people >> have regarding Hyperbole. >> >> I haven't been interacting with the thread, but I've been lurking about >> and I've tried Hyperbole in the past, but couldn't precisely figure out >> its use case in my particular workflow, so I gave up on it. >> >> Now, according to your description, the main feature of Hyperbole looks >> a lot like what Embark [1] does sort of the same thing, albeit in >> different contexts, complexity (not a bad thing) and workflow. Would you >> be able to compare them? I think it would help me understand where >> exactly Hyperbole fits, and what is the problem it tries to solve. >> >> [1] https://github.com/oantolin/embark >> >> Best regards, >> >> -- >> João Pedro de A. Paula >> IT undergraduate at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) >> >
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