Hiding orgtrello-id texts

[pinard]

Hi, Antoine. (long time no speak!)

The orgtrello-id fragments within Trello Org files are rather distracting or polluting, so I'm experimenting with this code within org-mode-hook to hide them:

     (save-excursion
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (when (search-forward ":PROPERTIES: {\"orgtrello-id\":" nil t)
          (font-lock-add-keywords
           nil '((" *:PROPERTIES: {\"orgtrello-id\":[^}\n]+}"
                  (0 (add-text-properties (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)
                                          '(invisible org-link))))))))

This code seems to work for me, yet I'm not sure I understand it fully — I've been merely copying similar code from file to file for a long time :-).

Maybe org-trello could install something similar right in its minor mode?

François

[ardumont]

Hi,

Thanks for this pointer, this is really interesting.
This could be the answer for many alignment problems
(some mode code to eradicate, the lesser the easier to maintain!)

Those properties are needed for org-trello but the users do not care about this!
So hiding them would be a great way!

This code seems to work for me, yet I'm not sure I understand it fully...

I Will look into this.

Maybe org-trello could install something similar right in its minor mode?

If it works, this will be installed on default.

[pinard]

By the way, Antoine, a little trick I often use is:

(global-set-key "\C-cev" 'visible-mode)

Use any global keybinding you want, not necessarily mine. The idea is to have the capability of quickly turning visible mode on and off. Then you can reveal or hide invisible code at will. This is useful to me a bit everywhere in Org files, too, especially for me who is found on setting org-hide-emphasis-markers to t.

François.

[pinard]

Oops! There was a missing closing brace in the code I submitted above, sorry, Just added it.

[ardumont]

Hi,

Thanks again for those pointers.

[ardumont]

status

• checkbox property "orgtrello-id" is a needed property to permit trello checklist/item identification
• but they are user-noisy

idea

• hide checkbox property "orgtrello-id" to avoid "noisiness"

limit

• once hidden, org-trello must still be able to get/put the property when parsing the file

[ardumont]

useful links:

• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InvisibleText
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Invisible-Text.html