Re: org-fstree.el overview over directories (but no comments are possible)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "JMM" == Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:
Hi Juan,


> Uwe Brauer writes:
>> The only problem is one cannot add comments in the sense when the tree
>> is updated everything gets replaced
>> as indicated:
>> 
>> ;;   - when triggering an update (by pressing "C-c C-c" while in the line 
>> mentioned above)
>> ;;     the COMPLETE REGION BETWEEN "#+BEGIN_FSTREE" AND "#+END_FSTREE" IS 
>> REPLACED.
>> ;;   - speed  
>> 
>> 
>> So I am wondering. Is there any new package or an update I am not aware
>> of that would allow adding comments?

> Hi Uwe,

> I tried this package a long time ago, and I found the problems you
> mention. I noticed also that in large directories it took a eternity to
> create the Org nodes. The idea of the package is not bad, but I did not
> find a practical use for it. I currently have dired-subtree-toggle
> installed, which allows expanding and collapsing dired directories, and
> assigned these keyboard shortcuts to it:

>   (with-eval-after-load 'dired
>     (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "<tab>") 'dired-subtree-toggle)
>     (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "C-<tab>") 'dired-subtree-cycle))

> As to whether there is any new package that does the same thing as
> org-fstree, AFAIK I don't think so. 

Well I found one 
https://github.com/ScriptDevil/org-fs-tree

But again I cannot add comments, nor seems there be a update function.



> Out of curiosity, what use case would you give to such a package?

Well, since I tend to forget things, and it is very time consuming to
open files and see what is the basic content, I thought of adding to
each directory (with subdirectories if necessary) I find useful a
README.org file, that contains a 

    1. Tree of the directory and 

    1. a short description of the content of each file

I use bookmarks.el but that is an entirely different  workflow, since I
there only save files that I find useful, but sometimes I stumble across
a directory  I created  some time ago and don't recall the content of
each file.






> Best regards,

> Juan Manuel 



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