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[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

Whelp, I completely didn't know about this feature, and it is a hugely 
helpful. 

I deeply worry I will fall into a org-mode pit and not come out for a few 
days.  

I have barely scratched the surface or org. 



> On Feb 12, 2024, at 10:45, Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Robert,
> Not sure if you know this, so putting it here in case you don't, but the 
> things you list under your "can get clever" are actually very easy to do 
> with no coding. Just bind org-capture to a global hotkey, then press it 
> when you want to make a note about the line you are just reading. Then you 
> can insert the link in an org buffer using C-c C-l I think, and the line 
> you had captured would be in the history, which you can go through using 
> the arrow keys.
> Also, what I often do is keep my notes open in a separate window (or tab in 
> MacOS terms) by pressing C-x 4 b. Then I can use C-x o to jump between the 
> code (open in one window) and my notes (open in another window).
> I'll leave the rest to others to answer, as I often struggle with spaghetti 
> code myself.'
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 12, 2024, at 16:34, Robert Melton <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Curious if there are any recommendations for learning new codebases.
>> 
>> I am currently fighting a rather complex codebase for a web app and 
>> wondering
>> if the community has any tricks for staying sane when trying to spin up on 
>> new
>> projects.  
>> 
>> Thus far I have played a good bit with folding, which I like the idea of 
>> because
>> it makes it easy to skip over or dig in on a block, and while I like the 
>> notion of
>> it, I hate the actual experience.
>> 
>> Right now, I am mostly maintaining a notes file on the project as I go and
>> learn each piece, can get clever I think and drop links into the files, or
>> even sort of build my own annotate by binding a keypress to jump to my
>> org file and come back.
>> 
>> Any tools or techniques I should add to my bag of tricks?  
>> 
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