Hi Michael,
thanx for the good words about org-index ! And yes all those packages are earlier Versions of org-index :-/ However, I did not try to cover my traces that way, but rather tried to find a name, that at first glimpse gives an idea of this packages purpose ... Now, org-index is a good fit, I think and I will not change its name again. Regarding your upgrade path, I think you can easily switch from org-favtable to org-index, only that you should rename org-favtable-id into org-index-id within your .emacs As far as I can deduce from the version history which is contained in org-index.el, you do not need to convert your index-table; it will work unchanged with org-index. (please tell me, if there are unexpected problems !) Finally as for the piled up confusion of having several packages with different names. I need help from the org-mode elders in cleaning this up, because I do not have commit-bit for org, only for worg. What should be done is this: The only package that should be retained is org-index.el all others (org-reftable.el, org-favtable.el and org-refer-by-number.el) can simply be removed in favour of org-index.el, the latest version of which resides in worg. Now, if the last paragraph passes unnoticed for some days, I will send out a note directly to someone, asking to help me clean up :-) Thanx for your feedback and best regards ! Marc Am 28.10.2013 12:15, schrieb Michael Strey:
Hello, I'm using org-reftable.el [1] from the contrib path of the Git repository since several months. It is a useful addition to integrate my personal archive of notes, data sheets, and pages that I tore out of journals into Org Mode documents. Now that I wanted to refine this system, I stumbled across the other packages mentioned in the subject. It seems that they are all revisions of the same project from Marc Ihm. IIUC, org-index.el is the newest version that was preceded by org-favtable.el, org-reftable.el, and org-refer-by-number.el. Currently we have org-favtable.el and org-reftable.el in the contrib path whilst org-index.el is only available via Worg [2]. Marc, could you please clarify this confusion? Anyway, thank you for sharing this add-on! Best regards Michael Strey Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/code/elisp/org-reftable.el [2] http://orgmode.org/worg/code/elisp/org-index.el
