From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: eduardoochs at fastmail.fm (Eduardo Ochs)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:46:10 -0200
Subject: [Howm-eng 11] Feature request: "named files"
Message-ID: <1131702370.25084.247285817@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Hi,

I'm trying to use howm again - I have never gone very far using
it because I only feel comfortable when I keep my ideas in "named
files" rather than in "dated files", i.e., in files whose names
are like, say, "htmlizer", instead of like "2005-11-09.howm"...

What about this idea for a function?

It will be called, say, `howm-create-named-file', and bound to `N' in
howm-view-summary-mode and to `C-c , N' globally; when called
interactively it will ask for a filename in the minibuffer, like this:

  (let ((default-directory "/tmp/"))
    (call-interactively
      (lambda (&rest)
        (interactive "FHowm file name: "))))

and the default directory will be either `howm-directory' or, in
howm-view-summary-mode, the directory of the file at point, or, in
howm-view-contents-mode, the current directory... if the file already
exists it is visited, and if it doesn't exist yet it is created with
the adequate template...

I tried to create a function like that, but I got stuck and I figured
that it would be more fun to post a request to the list... :)

  Cheers, and maybe thanks in advance, :)
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://angg.twu.net/

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