Re: [Hyperbole-users] Pointers to create modification on link-to-mail

[Robert Weiner]

If you could explain how those Org mode choices work, that would help us think 
about your use case as well.  I don’t fully follow what they do or how they 
work.

-- Bob

> On Aug 5, 2019, at 9:16 PM, Robert Weiner <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> You are in luck.  What you seem to want is a cross between Hyperbole explicit 
> and implicit buttons and the next release of Hyperbole provides this in the 
> form of labeled implicit buttons, where an explicit button type label (but 
> with <[square bracket]> delimiters) can precede the implicit pattern that 
> provides the parameters for the button.  Or you could do this with the 
> current implicit button mechanism as one implicit button type can handle any 
> number of implicit buttons with different in-buffer parameters.   Read the 
> hibtypes.el definitions and I think you will get it.  If you want to try the 
> latest pre-release, install the code from the 7.0.3a git branch of the 
> Hyperbole source at savannah.gnu.org or github.com/rswgnu/hyperbole.
> 
> -- Bob
> 
>> On Aug 5, 2019, at 9:02 PM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>> 
>> * Robert Weiner <address@hidden> [2019-08-06 01:31]:
>>> I would leave the implicit button definition alone and just edit the
>>> defact action type in hactypes.el.  That is, write your own version
>>> that overrides the builtin version after Hyperbole is loaded.  Then
>>> you can just define that as you would a regular function and either
>>> throw up a menu with choices or dispatch based on context as you
>>> like.
>> 
>> Yes thank you.
>> 
>> But I am thinking how that has to be automated. Let me compare that to
>> Org links which has customization just for links:
>> 
>> Hide Org Link Abbrev Alist:
>> INS DEL Cons-cell:
>>           Protocol: gpatent
>>           Choice: Value Menu Format: https://www.google.com/patents/US%s
>> INS DEL Cons-cell:
>>           Protocol: xau2usd
>>           Choice: Value Menu Format: 
>> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s+xau+to+usd&ia=currency
>> INS DEL Cons-cell:
>>           Protocol: geo
>>           Choice: Value Menu Format: geo:%s
>> INS DEL Cons-cell:
>>           Protocol: contact-id
>>           Choice: Value Menu Function: view-contact
>> INS
>>   State : EDITED, shown value does not take effect until you set or save it.
>>  Alist of link abbreviations. More
>> 
>> Thus I am proposing that you add explicit buttons type that can be
>> created in the form:
>> 
>> <(attribute:value)> but also <(attribute value)> version, or even
>> <(attribute value1 value2 ...)>
>> 
>> whereby such buttons can be easily customized in similar fashion as
>> Org links. That could be so much liberating from slower Org mode links
>> an it could work in any type of files.
>> 
>> That opens numerous possibilities. If I have list of staff members in
>> the database, such database could be automatically expande into single
>> text file for reporting and review purposes. File would be opened in
>> specific directory for that staff member and buttons could be
>> generated automatically in that file.
>> 
>> STAFF MEMBER REPORT (automatically generated)
>> ===================
>> 
>> Mr. John Doe <(send email)>[1] - <(send SMS)> - <(call)>[2] - <(note)>
>> 
>> Contact ID: <(1234)>[3]
>> 
>> <(Emails address@hidden>)[4]
>> <(Emails address@hidden>)[5]
>> <(Emails address@hidden>)
>> 
>> <(People introduced: 34)>[6]
>> 
>> <(Assignments 143)>[7]
>> 
>> <(Assignments done 89)>[8]
>> 
>> <(Expenses Table)>[9]
>> 
>> <(Notes)>[10]
>> 
>> Footnotes:
>> [1]  This would cause to send him email.
>> 
>> [2]  It would create new note for the contact.
>> 
>> [3]  This would open basic profile with contact information.
>> 
>> [4]  This would open all conversation related to person
>> 
>> [5]  This is type of button with attribute and value.
>> 
>> [6]  This button would be automatically generated and related to the
>>    ID 1234 stored in the .hypb file, showing the list or report of
>>    people that person has introduced.
>> 
>> [7]  It would open all assignments for the person, normally within Org
>>    file. 
>> 
>> [8]  It would show only DONE assignments
>> 
>> [9]  It would open expenses table.
>> 
>> [10]  It would show all the notes related to contact.
>>