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Re: [Orgmode] camel.el, for CamelCase links


From: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] camel.el, for CamelCase links
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:56:12 -0500

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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi guys -- I have pulled the last version from the repo which include
> org-wikinodes, but I don't see the line for the org-wikinodes module
> when customizing the org-modules variable. What should I do?
>
> Marcelo.
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Carsten Dominik
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Bastien wrote:
>>
>>> "David O'Toole" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> http://github.com/dto/folio/blob/master/camel.el
>>>>
>>>> Someone asked about this recently, i have some partially working code.
>>>
>>> I'm willing to test.
>>>
>>> Can you provide the handlers so that the code works for Org?
>>>
>>> I'm not a big fan of CamelCase links because it encourages the habit of
>>> creating many files -- but that may be useful for some.
>>
>> I am not a big fan of CamelCase for two reasons:
>>
>> 1. as Bastien says, to creates many small files.  Org does work
>>   with a number of files - I think it is less than perfect for a very
>>   large number of files.  If you want to create many files, David O'Toole's
>>   implementation might work for you - also it is not limited to Org files.
>>
>>
>> 2. Using CamelCase does encourage to write stuff in strange, hard to
>>   read syntax which conflicts with some words or names that should not
>>   be spelled like this, and which also does not look very good on export.
>>   THis is why most wikis have either stepped away from CamelCase, or added
>>   additional syntax, for example with brackets.
>>
>> In fact, for Org mode, it seems more natural to use outline nodes for the
>> structure of a wiki, not files.  Russel Adams suggested this in another
>> thread:
>>
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/27442/focus=27465
>>
>> With the change I just made to make [[..]] links match exact headlines and
>> to offer headline creation when no match is found, I do find it simple
>> enough to type [[My Heading]] or [[file:xyz.org::My Heading]]
>>
>> I have toyed with CamelCase in the past though.  And since there seems
>> to be at least some interest, I have just wrapped this code into a
>> contributed package and linked it properly into the hyperlink and
>> export mechanisms in Org.  The modules is called org-wikinodes.el
>> and it is documented here:
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-wikinodes.php
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
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