Re: Package suggestion[nongnu]: Gnosis (γνῶσις)

[Philip Kaludercic]

Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>
>> Here area few comments in form of a diff (this is NOT a patch):
>
> [...]
>
> Thank you for your suggestions, they've been really helpful.
>
> I got confused and thought emacsql was included in nongnu elpa, but it's only
> available only in nongnu-devel.

You are right, that is peculiar.  One should see what is holding back
the release.

> Is there any alternative that it's recommended instead of emacsql for a
> package to interact with an sqlite databases? (Except triples)

If you require at least Emacs 29, then you could fall back onto the
built-in SQLite support.

> I've refactored a couple important parts of gnosis to take into an
> account future extensibility, even by 3rd party packages. Example:
>
> (defvar gnosis-note-types '(MCQ Cloze Basic Double y-or-n)
>   "Gnosis available note types.")
>   
> (defun gnosis-add-note (type)
>   "Create note(s) as TYPE interactively."
>   (interactive (list (completing-read "Type: " gnosis-note-types nil t)))
>   (when gnosis-testing
>     (unless (y-or-n-p "You are using a testing environment! Continue?")
>       (error "Aborted")))
>   (let ((func-name (intern (format "gnosis-add-note-%s" (downcase type)))))

Perhaps using `intern-soft' would be better here.

>     (if (fboundp func-name)
>         (funcall func-name)
>       (message "No such type."))))
>       
> (defun gnosis-review-note (id)
>   "Start review for note with value of id ID."
>   (when (gnosis-suspended-p id)
>     (message "Suspended note with id: %s" id)
>     (sit-for 0.3)) ;; this should only occur in testing/dev cases
>   (let* ((type (gnosis-get 'type 'notes `(= id ,id)))
>          (func-name (intern (format "gnosis-review-%s" (downcase type)))))
>     (if (fboundp func-name)
>         (progn
>           (with-current-buffer (switch-to-buffer (get-buffer-create 
> "*gnosis*"))

You don't need `switch-to-buffer' if you are using `with-current-buffer'.

>             (gnosis-mode)
>             (funcall func-name id)))
>       (error "Malformed note type: '%s'" type))))
>
> Adding new note types should be a trivial task now.
>
> I hadn't really used emacs without vertico and was unaware of how
> different completing-read user interactions actually are. I will be
> making adjustments for that wherever possible.

I use Emacs that way, so if you have any questions I'd be glad to
clarify usage patterns and annoyances.