Re: NonGNU ELPA proposal: annotate-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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.

Note that beside this `annotate.el` that's also `org-remark.el` recently
added to `elpa.git` which offers similar functionality, but similarly
suffers from the use of absolute file names to connect the notes and
the file.


        Stefan