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Lately I've been thinking about better ways of namespacing directives and more specifically
the need to create global directives for one-off pieces of code that are specific to the
context of given controller. Often the only reason I create a directive is because I need
a link function to do some DOM manipulation. Here is my dirty little experiment:

app.directive 'pxLink', ->
  link: ($scope, $el, $attrs) -> $scope[$attrs.pxLink]?($el, $attrs)

<div class="thing" px-link="myLinker"></div>

or 

<div class="thing" px-link="myLinker" ng-controller="ThingController"></div>

myLinker is a function on the controllers scope which receives the element and attrs:

app.controller 'ThingController', ($scope) ->
  $scope.myLinker = (el, attrs) -> 
    el.css(width: '100px', height: '100px', 'background-color': 'red')

Now simple linking can be done without getting in your way.