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62 <h1 class=
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64 <p>Notes-mode, the minutiae, and some other good stuff.
66 <table class=
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69 <tr><td align=
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94 <h2 class=
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125 <a name=
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126 <h3 class=
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128 <p>Moving between notes entries and around the hierarchy is fairly common,
129 so there are some accelerators.
131 <dl compact=
"compact">
132 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-i
</kbd></dt>
133 <dd><p>Jump to the index entry for the current entry
’s subject
134 (
<code>notes-goto-index-entry
</code>).
135 <a name=
"index-C_002dc-C_002di"></a>
138 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-n
</kbd></dt>
139 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-p
</kbd></dt>
140 <dd><p>Move to the next or prior note with the same subject
141 (
<code>notes-follow-next-link
</code> and
<code>notes-follow-prev-link
</code>).
142 These functions follow the links in the note,
143 if they
’re defined.
145 they look through the index file.
146 This approach usually works,
147 but will fail if there are multiple new entries created
148 with the given subject
149 between when the index is recomputed.
150 <a name=
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151 <a name=
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154 <dt> <kbd>C-c
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></kbd></dt>
155 <dd><p>Follow the link under the point
156 (
<code>notes-w3-follow-link
</code>),
157 a keyboard equivalent of
<S-mouse-
2>.
158 <a name=
"index-C_002dcRTN"></a>
161 <dt> <kbd>M-C-a
</kbd></dt>
162 <dt> <kbd>M-C-e
</kbd></dt>
163 <dd><p>Jump to the beginning or end of the current note entry
164 (
<code>notes-beginning-of-defun
</code> and
<code>notes-end-of-defun
</code>).
165 <a name=
"index-M_002dC_002da"></a>
166 <a name=
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169 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-k
</kbd></dt>
170 <dd><p>Copies the pseudo-URL for the current note into the kill-ring
171 (
<code>current-url-as-kill
</code>).
172 To link two entries, go to the target,
173 grab its URL with
<kbd>C-c C-k
</kbd>,
174 go to where you want to make the link,
175 and yank the URL with
<kbd>C-y
</kbd>.
176 <a name=
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182 <p>Notes mode supports imenu,
183 if you have it bound to something
184 (I use
<code>(global-set-key [down-mouse-
3] 'imenu)
</code>).
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207 <h3 class=
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</h3>
209 <p>It
’s often helpful to look at all
210 entries for a given subject
212 collects all entries with the subject of the current
213 entry in a new buffer
214 (
<code>notes-summarize-subject
</code>).
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238 <h3 class=
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</h3>
240 <a name=
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241 <a name=
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243 <p>Notes occasionally contain private material.
244 While Unix has strong services for file protection
245 (compared to other, say, more wide-selling operating systems),
246 in many systems root passwords are shared,
247 while other systems are vulnerable to physical compromise.
249 properly used encryption is the best approach to security.
251 <p>Notes-mode encryption is based
252 Phill Zimmerman
’s PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
253 (see
‘<tt>http://www.mantis.co.uk/pgp/pgp.html
</tt>’)
255 with Rick Campbell
’s
256 emacs interface, PAM (PGP Augmented Messaging)
257 (from
‘<tt>ftp://h.gp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/rfb/pam/
</tt>’)
258 (note that as of January
1997, PAM is no longer at this ftp site
259 and appears to not be publicly available),
260 or LoPresti and Choi
’s mailcrypt
261 (from
‘<tt>http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/
</tt>’).
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264 <a name=
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265 <a name=
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266 <a name=
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268 <dl compact=
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269 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-e
</kbd></dt>
270 <dd><p>Encrypt the current note
271 (
<code>notes-encrypt-note
</code>).
272 By default this function encrypts the whole entry.
273 With a prefix argument,
274 only the part from the point to the end of the entry is encrypted.
275 <a name=
"index-C_002dc-C_002de"></a>
278 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-d
</kbd></dt>
279 <dd><p>Decrypt the current note
280 (
<code>notes-decrypt-note
</code>).
283 <a name=
"index-C_002dc-C_002dd"></a>
285 <p>By default notes-mode determines your public key by looking
286 up your
<code>user-full-name
</code> in your PGP keyring.
287 You can override this default by setting
288 <code>notes-encryption-key-id
</code>
289 to the desired key-id.
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312 <h3 class=
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315 <a name=
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316 <a name=
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318 <p>There are a number of conventions which can make notes-mode
320 These conventions are a matter of personal taste,
322 Do what works for you.
325 I find it helpful to keep the date of each notes-file at the top
327 This makes the file self-identifying
328 if the filename is lost.
331 I find it useful to have the first entry of each file
332 have the same subject (perhaps
“Today
”).
333 This entry then links all notes together,
334 making it easy to go to yesterday and tomorrow.
335 I keep a to-do list on this entry,
336 bringing the list forward each day.
337 <a name=
"index-Today"></a>
339 <p>A third useful convention is to keep an
340 entry with the name based on the day of the week
342 Analogous to
“Today
”, this entry links together
345 <p>Notes-mode supports these conventions.
346 When you make a new notes-file in emacs,
347 notes-mode searches for the preceding file.
348 If it follows any of these conventions,
349 the new file is initialized appropriately.
351 the approach to do this process
352 (in the program
‘<tt>mknew
</tt>’)
354 so it may not work in all cases.
356 the date convention works only on
357 for English-language dates.
358 (If you use notes-mode with a non-English language,
359 let me know and I
’ll work with you to fix this limitation.)
361 <p>If you find other helpful conventions,
363 Modifications to
‘<tt>mknew
</tt>’ to implement
364 new conventions are also invited.
366 <p>If you don
’t want to use these conventions,
367 or if you want to use different ones,
368 set the emacs variable notes-mode-initialization-program
369 to nil or the name of your initialization program.
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392 <h2 class=
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395 <p>Only two features of notes index mode haven
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397 you can open any notes-file based on date
398 with
<code>notes-index-link
</code>,
399 normally bound to
<o
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400 <a name=
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403 you can get a subject-summary
405 (see section
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431 <a name=
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434 <p>Several aspects of notes mode are particularly visible
436 Because I
’m not a fascist,
437 a user can change most of these.
439 <p>Preferences are specified in
‘<tt>~/.notesrc
</tt>’.
440 This file lists things to change:
442 <table><tr><td> </td><td><pre class=
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445 </pre></td></tr></table>
447 <p>Currently, two things can be changed:
449 <dl compact=
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450 <dt> <code>dir
</code></dt>
451 <dd><p>Specifies the root of the notes directory hierarchy
452 (see section
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</a>).
455 <dt> <code>int_form
</code></dt>
456 <dd><p>Specifies the form of the intermediate directory.
457 A limited subset of
<code>strftime(
3)
</code>
458 formatting is allowed.
462 <p>The subset of
<code>strftime(
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</code> supported in
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463 </p><dl compact=
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464 <dt> <code>%Y
</code></dt>
465 <dd><p>The four-digit year.
468 <dt> <code>%y
</code></dt>
469 <dd><p>The two-digit year.
472 <dt> <code>%m
</code></dt>
473 <dd><p>A two-digit numeric month.
476 <dt> <code>%d
</code></dt>
477 <dd><p>A two-digit day.
481 <p>In addition to
‘<tt>.notesrc
</tt>’,
482 there are a number of emacs-specific variables.
483 These variables are documented in the file
484 ‘<tt>notes-variables.el
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