Implicit Buttons Are Cool

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 13:05:39 -0800

I recently learned about hyperbole and its support for ‘implicit buttons’ and it helps me solve something in emacs. In my work as a machinist, I track a lot of things using org roam, including parts, which have part numbers that follow a specific syntax. They look something like: A123BC456D.

Often enough I want to create a separate org roam entry for a part, but I don’t necessarily want to go looking for places where the part number appears to create links to that entry. Hyperbole’s implicit buttons work well for this, letting me hit meta-enter on any part number (in org roam or not) and jumping to the correct entry if it exists or letting me create it if it does not already exist.

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Implicit Buttons Are Cool