Re: Org-cite: Replace basic follow-processor with transient menu?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tor-björn Claesson <tclaesson@gmail.com> writes:

>> I do think that having extended menus for org-open-at-point could be
>> useful. Not by default, but, for example, with a prefix argument.
>>
> This is a good point, but of much larger scope than just replacing the
> follower of the basic citation-processor.

No problem. But my idea may still be used - without prefix argument,
just move to citation record; with prefix argument - invoke the menu.

Follow processors are provided with prefix argument passed to
`org-open-at-point':

(defun org-cite-basic-goto (datum _)...

The "_" argument is the currently ignored prefix argument.

> Maybe it is a good idea to start small, for example provide
> 1. Open bibtex-entry
> 2. Copy DOI
> 3. Opening DOI/ISBN/URL links in browser
>
> Further functionality can easily be added per user, and good solutions
> incorporated by default in the future?

+1.
Ideally, these options should simply be a customization.

> I have played some more with this - would it be a good idea to include
> macros to get citekey, datum and _? I would be happy to clean this up a
> bit, add DOI/ISBN/URL-functionality, documentation and prepare a bug 
> report/patch.
>
> (defmacro org-cite-basic-follow--citekey ()
>   '(org-element-property :key (car (oref (transient-prefix-object) scope))))
>
> (defmacro org-cite-basic-follow--datum ()
>   '(car  (oref (transient-prefix-object) scope)))
>
> (defmacro org-cite-basic-follow--_ ()
>   '(cadr (oref (transient-prefix-object) scope)))
>
> (transient-define-prefix org-cite-basic-follow (datum _)
>   "How should we follow references?"
>   [["Open"
>     ("b" "bibliography entry"
>      (lambda ()
>        (interactive)
>        (org-cite-basic-goto
>         (org-cite-basic-follow--datum)
>         (org-cite-basic-follow--_))))]

This looks way too complicated.
Is there an easier way to access transient prefix command arguments from
suffixes? Maybe something provided by transient itself?

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