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  62 <h1 class="chapter"> 3. Advanced Features </h1>
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  64 <p>Notes-mode, the minutiae, and some other good stuff.
  65 </p>
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  94 <h2 class="section"> 3.1 Notes files </h2>
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  98 </td></tr>
  99 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC17">3.1.2 Subject summary</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
 100 </td></tr>
 101 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC18">3.1.3 Encryption</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
 102 </td></tr>
 103 <tr><td align="left" valign="top"><a href="#SEC19">3.1.4 Useful conventions</a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">
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 126 <h3 class="subsection"> 3.1.1 Getting around </h3>
 127
 128 <p>Moving between notes entries and around the hierarchy is fairly common,
 129  so there are some accelerators.
 130 </p>
 131 <dl compact="compact">
 132 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-i</kbd></dt>
 133 <dd><p>Jump to the index entry for the current entry's subject
 134 (<code>notes-goto-index-entry</code>).
 135 <a name="IDX20"></a>
 136 </p>
 137 </dd>
 138 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-n</kbd></dt>
 139 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-p</kbd></dt>
 140 <dd><p>Move to the next or prior note with the same subject
 141 (<code>notes-follow-next-link</code> and <code>notes-follow-prev-link</code>).
 142 These functions follow the links in the note,
 143  if they're defined.
 144 If not,
 145  they look through the index file.
 146 This approach usually works,
 147  but will fail if there are multiple new entries created
 148  with the given subject
 149  between when the index is recomputed.
 150 <a name="IDX21"></a>
 151 <a name="IDX22"></a>
 152 </p>
 153 </dd>
 154 <dt> <kbd>C-c&lt;RTN&gt;</kbd></dt>
 155 <dd><p>Follow the link under the point
 156 (<code>notes-w3-follow-link</code>),
 157  a keyboard equivalent of &lt;S-mouse-2&gt;.
 158 <a name="IDX23"></a>
 159 </p>
 160 </dd>
 161 <dt> <kbd>M-C-a</kbd></dt>
 162 <dt> <kbd>M-C-e</kbd></dt>
 163 <dd><p>Jump to the beginning or end of the current note entry
 164 (<code>notes-beginning-of-defun</code> and <code>notes-end-of-defun</code>).
 165 <a name="IDX24"></a>
 166 <a name="IDX25"></a>
 167 </p>
 168 </dd>
 169 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-k</kbd></dt>
 170 <dd><p>Copies the pseudo-URL for the current note into the kill-ring
 171 (<code>current-url-as-kill</code>).
 172 To link two entries, go to the target,
 173  grab its URL with <kbd>C-c C-k</kbd>,
 174  go to where you want to make the link,
 175  and yank the URL with <kbd>C-y</kbd>.
 176 <a name="IDX26"></a>
 177 </p>
 178 </dd>
 179 </dl>
 180
 181
 182 <p>Notes mode supports imenu,
 183  if you have it bound to something
 184  (I use <code>(global-set-key [down-mouse-3] 'imenu)</code>).
 185 <a name="IDX27"></a>
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 207 <h3 class="subsection"> 3.1.2 Subject summary </h3>
 208
 209 <p>It's often helpful to look at all
 210  entries for a given subject
 211 <kbd>C-c C-s</kbd>
 212  collects all entries with the subject of the current
 213  entry in a new buffer
 214  (<code>notes-summarize-subject</code>).
 215 <a name="IDX28"></a>
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 238 <h3 class="subsection"> 3.1.3 Encryption </h3>
 239
 240
 241 <p>Notes occasionally contain private material.
 242 While Unix has strong services for file protection
 243  (compared to other, say, more wide-selling operating systems),
 244  in many systems root passwords are shared,
 245  while other systems are vulnerable to physical compromise.
 246 In such systems,
 247  properly used encryption is the best approach to security.
 248 </p>
 249 <p>Notes-mode encryption is based
 250  Phill Zimmerman's PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
 251 (see &lsquo;<tt>http://www.mantis.co.uk/pgp/pgp.html</tt>&rsquo;)
 252  and either
 253  with Rick Campbell's
 254  emacs interface, PAM (PGP Augmented Messaging)
 255 (from &lsquo;<tt>ftp://h.gp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/rfb/pam/</tt>&rsquo;)
 256  (note that as of January 1997, PAM is no longer at this ftp site
 257  and appears to not be publicly available),
 258  or LoPresti and Choi's mailcrypt
 259 (from &lsquo;<tt>http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/</tt>&rsquo;).
 260 <a name="IDX30"></a>
 261 <a name="IDX31"></a>
 262 <a name="IDX32"></a>
 263 <a name="IDX33"></a>
 264 <a name="IDX34"></a>
 265 </p>
 266 <dl compact="compact">
 267 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-e</kbd></dt>
 268 <dd><p>Encrypt the current note
 269 (<code>notes-encrypt-note</code>).
 270 By default this function encrypts the whole entry.
 271 With a prefix argument,
 272  only the part from the point to the end of the entry is encrypted.
 273 <a name="IDX35"></a>
 274 </p>
 275 </dd>
 276 <dt> <kbd>C-c C-d</kbd></dt>
 277 <dd><p>Decrypt the current note
 278 (<code>notes-decrypt-note</code>).
 279 </p></dd>
 280 </dl>
 281 <a name="IDX36"></a>
 282
 283 <p>By default notes-mode determines your public key by looking
 284  up your <code>user-full-name</code> in your PGP keyring.
 285 You can override this default by setting
 286  <code>notes-encryption-key-id</code>
 287  to the desired key-id.
 288 <a name="IDX37"></a>
 289 </p>
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 310 <h3 class="subsection"> 3.1.4 Useful conventions </h3>
 311
 312
 313
 314 <p>There are a number of conventions which can make notes-mode
 315  easier to use.
 316 These conventions are a matter of personal taste,
 317  of course.
 318 Do what works for you.
 319 </p>
 320 <p>First,
 321  I find it helpful to keep the date of each notes-file at the top
 322  of the file.
 323 This makes the file self-identifying
 324  if the filename is lost.
 325 </p>
 326 <p>Second,
 327  I find it useful to have the first entry of each file
 328  have the same subject (perhaps &ldquo;Today&rdquo;).
 329 This entry then links all notes together,
 330  making it easy to go to yesterday and tomorrow.
 331 I keep a to-do list on this entry,
 332  bringing the list forward each day.
 333 <a name="IDX38"></a>
 334 </p>
 335 <p>A third useful convention is to keep an
 336  entry with the name based on the day of the week
 337  in each file.
 338 Analogous to &ldquo;Today&rdquo;, this entry links together
 339  weeks.
 340 </p>
 341 <p>Notes-mode supports these conventions.
 342 When you make a new notes-file in emacs,
 343  notes-mode searches for the preceding file.
 344 If it follows any of these conventions,
 345  the new file is initialized appropriately.
 346 Currently
 347  the approach to do this process
 348  (in the program &lsquo;<tt>mknew</tt>&rsquo;)
 349  is fairly sensitive,
 350  so it may not work in all cases.
 351 In particular,
 352  the date convention works only on
 353  for English-language dates.
 354 (If you use notes-mode with a non-English language,
 355  let me know and I'll work with you to fix this limitation.)
 356 </p>
 357 <p>If you find other helpful conventions,
 358  please let me know.
 359 Modifications to &lsquo;<tt>mknew</tt>&rsquo; to implement
 360  new conventions are also invited.
 361 </p>
 362 <p>If you don't want to use these conventions,
 363  or if you want to use different ones,
 364  set the emacs variable notes-mode-initialization-program
 365  to nil or the name of your initialization program.
 366 <a name="IDX39"></a>
 367 </p>
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 388 <h2 class="section"> 3.2 Notes indices </h2>
 389
 390
 391 <p>Only two features of notes index mode haven't yet been described.
 392 First,
 393  you can open any notes-file based on date
 394  with <code>notes-index-link</code>,
 395  normally bound to &lt;o&gt;.
 396 <a name="IDX40"></a>
 397 </p>
 398 <p>Second,
 399  you can get a subject-summary
 400  with &lt;C-c C-s&gt;
 401  (see section <a href="#SEC17">Subject summary</a>).
 402 The subject defaults to that of the current index line.
 403 <a name="IDX41"></a>
 404 </p>
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 425 <h2 class="section"> 3.3 Notes-mode configuration </h2>
 426
 427
 428 <p>Several aspects of notes mode are particularly visible
 429  to the user.
 430 Because I'm not a fascist,
 431  a user can change most of these.
 432 </p>
 433 <p>Preferences are specified in &lsquo;<tt>~/.notesrc</tt>&rsquo;.
 434 This file lists things to change:
 435 </p>
 436 <table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example"># lines beginning with a hash are comments
 437 dir: ~/NOTES
 438 int_form: %Y%m
 439 </pre></td></tr></table>
 440
 441 <p>Currently, two things can be changed:
 442 </p>
 443 <dl compact="compact">
 444 <dt> <code>dir</code></dt>
 445 <dd><p>Specifies the root of the notes directory hierarchy
 446  (see section <a href="notes-mode_2.html#SEC13">The notes directories</a>).
 447 </p>
 448 </dd>
 449 <dt> <code>int_form</code></dt>
 450 <dd><p>Specifies the form of the intermediate directory.
 451 A limited subset of <code>strftime(3)</code>
 452  formatting is allowed.
 453 </p></dd>
 454 </dl>
 455
 456 <p>The subset of <code>strftime(3)</code> supported in <code>int_form</code> is:
 457 </p><dl compact="compact">
 458 <dt> <code>%Y</code></dt>
 459 <dd><p>The four-digit year.
 460 </p>
 461 </dd>
 462 <dt> <code>%y</code></dt>
 463 <dd><p>The two-digit year.
 464 </p>
 465 </dd>
 466 <dt> <code>%m</code></dt>
 467 <dd><p>A two-digit numeric month.
 468 </p>
 469 </dd>
 470 <dt> <code>%d</code></dt>
 471 <dd><p>A two-digit day.
 472 </p></dd>
 473 </dl>
 474
 475 <p>In addition to &lsquo;<tt>.notesrc</tt>&rsquo;,
 476  there are a number of emacs-specific variables.
 477 These variables are documented in the file
 478  &lsquo;<tt>notes-variables.el</tt>&rsquo;.
 479 </p>
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