Inline Display and the New Pointer

Toggle inline display with C-c a / and annotation content appears as box-drawn blocks directly in your buffer:

    some annotated code here
    ▴
┌─ ✎ [OPEN/NORMAL] ──────────────
│ This function needs refactoring.
│ The nested conditionals are hard
│ to follow.
└─────────────────────────────────

New in 0.9.8 is the inline pointer, that little ▴ connecting the box to the annotated text. It is indented to the exact column where the annotation starts, so you always know what the comment refers to.

The fun bit is that the pointer is just a string, and it supports multiline. So you can customise it to whatever shape you like:

;; Simple arrow (default)
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-after "▴")
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-above "▾")

;; Heavy L-bracket (my current favourite)
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-after "┃\n┗━▶")
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-above "┏━▶\n┃")

;; Speech bubble tail
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-after " ╰┐")
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-above " ╰┐")

;; Decorative diamond
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-after "◆")
(setq simply-annotate-inline-pointer-above "◆")

There is a full list of copy-paste options in the Commentary section of the elisp file. Set to nil to disable the pointer entirely.