Hi Torsten,
On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:41 AM, Torsten Wagner wrote:
Dear All,
I'm really an org-mode beginner and even more I'm a bloody emacs-
lisp beginner. Nevertheless, I try to understand here and there who
things work out and tweak some things here and there. Nothing which
might be worse to share yet .... but I'm on my way to learn about
the internals of org-mode.
Normally I start to consult the manual and see if I could achive
what I am looking for by the given function set of org-mode. If I
concern a lot I try to dig down threw the source-code for different
functions to see how they work.
I wonder whether it might be possible to add a footnote to every
explained function with a link to the source-file.
By this way it would be much easier to find the desired code-lines.
Maybe bug-fixing will be easier as well. I assume there are many org-
mode users with solid lisp knowledge who might be able to help bug-
fixing but who have no idea where to find the necessary code.
I know I can use C-h a in emacs to search for the desired function
and jump to the lisp code. Just thought some redundancy in the
manual might help to attract more people to contribute.
Since the manual and the lisp files are plain text, it might be easy
to write a function which does this automatically?!
This would not be easy, because the Org-mode manual is written in
terms of keys and functionality, not in terms of functions. So the
manual, most of the times, does not know about which function it is
talking.
If you are reading the manual in info, the commands find-function and
find-variable will be shortcust for the process you describe above.
- Carsten
Furthermore, after I thought about this I started to wonder whether
org-mode + babel could be used to literally program org-mode itself.
This would result in a very nice developer manual and is a very nice
example to literate programming.
Just some thoughts
Bye
Torsten
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- Carsten
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