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Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode |
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Sun, 30 Jan 2022 23:03:06 -0500 |
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> FWIW, I wish Emacs had in core a mode that would allow adding notes
> (a.k.a. "annotations") to files, which (a) didn't use overlays that
> display in the text area, but instead displayed the notes in the
> margin and/or in tooltips; and (b) would save the notes of FILE into a
> FILE.notes file, not into a single DB under the user's home directory.
> I think it would be a very useful feature that every text-processing
> package should have built-in.
I second that.
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