Re: [Orgmode] Re: patch: link to the log of an ERC session

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Phil Jackson wrote:

> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > I get a lot of my information from ERC/bitlbee so wrote this patch  
> > > to
> > > allow for linking against the log associated with an ERC session.
> >
> > It's interesting that you're linking to the log file.  I hadn't
> > thought of doing that before, but I like the idea.  Planner's ERC
> > integration causes a new conversation to that person to be launched
> > when clicking on its generated link.  I could see merits in each
> > approach.
>
> As I just make a 'file://' link to the log there is no reason org
> couldn't have an 'irc://' link too. Might be a little confusing for
> users having two places in the same buffer where C-c l could collect
> different links though :/

How about writing a little extension org-irc.el that extends the link
mechanism for both cases? I'd love to see more such extensions, and I
would be happy to distribute them with Org-mode, and to put them into
Emacs if the papers are in order.

In fact, I am thinking about putting more of the link stuff into
separate files, if I can find the time.

- Carsten