Re: [Orgmode] Patch to allow quotes showing on *remember*

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Hugo,

I see now what you mean, and I have no objections to remove comment  
lines at the end.
However, I believe that Sacha's idea it terrible and completely  
orthogonal to the idea of remember, which was written to *minimize*  
distraction :-)

Anyway, I will add your patch.

- Carsten

On Jan 15, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Hugo Schmitt wrote:

> Carsten,
> Yeah, mostly for fun, but for example Sacha used it for learning
> English-Japanese translations..
> If there is a better way to fix the remember buffer, please tell me.
>
> Here's a excerpt from Sacha's post:
>
> Adding Other Text to the Remember Buffer
>
> Remember has plenty of hooks that let you modify the behavior. For
> example, you might want to insert a random tagline or fortune-cookie
> saying whenever you create a note. This is a fun way to encourage
> yourself to write more, because then there's a little surprise every
> time you open a Remember buffer.
>
> and here is the code that inserts that (rest is on the blog):
>
> (eval-after-load 'remember
>  '(progn
>     (defadvice remember (after wicked activate)
>       "Add random tagline."
>       (save-excursion
>         (goto-char (point-max))
>         (insert "\n\n" (wicked/random-tagline) "\n\n")))))
>
> Maybe i can implement that "cleaning the remember buffer" also as an
> advice or hook?
> Thanks in advance.
> Hugo
>
>
> Here's the link:
> http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/01/13/capturing-notes-with-remember/
> search for subtitle "Adding Other Text to the Remember Buffer"
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 8:17 AM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > Hi Hugo,
> >
> > On Jan 15, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Hugo Schmitt wrote:
> >
> > > Hi again.
> > > Let me just show you the use case. Take a look at my current
> > > remember buffer:
> > >
> > > ---start
> > > ## Filing location: Select interactively, default, or last used:
> > > ##     C-u C-c C-c  to select file and header location  
> > > interactively.
> > > ##         C-c C-c  "~/hugo/docs/org/todo.org" -> "* Inbox"
> > > ## C-u C-u C-c C-c  "???" -> "* ???"
> > > ## To switch templates, use `C-c r'.  To abort use `C-c C-k'.
> > >
> > > * TODO todo title goes here
> > > [2008-01-15 ter]
> > >
> > > ## An Emacs reference mug is what I want.  It would hold ten gallons
> > > of coffee.
> > > ## -- Steve VanDevender
> > > ---end
> > >
> > > I need that patch so that the bottom lines (the quote) aren't  
> > > appended
> > > into the org file after remember.
> > > I was just saying that, if more people use something like this *and*
> > > it doesn't mess up for people who don't, the patch could be added to
> > > org.
> >
> >
> > My question is: how did this extra commend get into the remember  
> > buffer
> > in the first place?  Why is it there?  just for fun?
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> >
> > > -hugo
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 15, 2008 7:55 AM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi Hugo,
> > > >
> > > > I am not sure what the purpose of this is.  The ## stuff at the
> > > > beginning
> > > > is stuff to remind the user on how to proceed further.  What is the
> > > > idea
> > > > of Sacha you are referring to?  What is the use case?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Jan 14, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Hugo Schmitt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi folks!
> > > > > I'm sending this as a suggestion.
> > > > > Right now the function 'org-remember-handler' removes the lines on
> > > > > the
> > > > > beginning of the buffer that start with "##" (the ones explaining
> > > > > usage, shortcuts, etc)
> > > > > Yesterday i was trying out sachac's idea of putting quotes into
> > > > > remember (on the bottom), but the text that went there was being
> > > > > added
> > > > > to the todo.org with the actual todo.
> > > > >
> > > > > W/ the fix org also removes the lines on the end that begin with
> > > > > '##'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > -Hugo
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