Protesilaos Stavrou

Emacs: new 'denote-merge' package

The denote-merge package is an optional extension to denote. I am providing it in response to requests for functionality that streamlines the work of merging contents from one file into another. Thanks to Sia Piperea for reminding me about it, making a suggestion for region-related functions, and for testing my prototype:

The denote-merge package is a more refined implementation of those ideas, plus more. As of now, the package provides support for two broad kinds of “merging”:

  • Merge one file into another.
  • Merge a region into a file.

For merging a region, in particular, there are options and concomitant convenience commands to format the region in a certain way, such as an Org source block, a Markdown blockquote, a plain indented region, and the like.

The official manual describes the technicalities. In short, I have taken care to make the relevant commands do the right thing, including to update backlinks, annotate the contents, and establish links, where relevant.

Note that the GNU ELPA package is not available yet. I have prepared the relevant patch and am expecting everything to be done in the near future.

Please stay tuned.

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