From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Refiling list items
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:20:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13875.1312849225@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> of "Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:47:33 EDT." <CA+K2SAxesPS-9EDaZqXPWjrZuJPCmnzr8WSf4nq1M+5X7d_F5w@mail.gmail.com>
Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What would be the specifications of that function? Would it only send
> > the item at point to the end of the headline specified through the
> > refile interface?
>
> I hope its clear that this is all above my head. I know enough to make
> suggestions, but not contribute to implementing them. That makes me a
> free-rider, but a free-rider that recognizes he's at the mercy of
> others' talents.
>
Ah, no - you don't get off that easily! This is not "implementing"
anything. He is asking about your expectations:
"If I have a list item here and I do an org-refile with such and such
arguments in a file that looks like so and so, I expect it to do such
and such. Instead it did this and that, which was rather surprising.
OTOH, if the list item is *there*..." etc. etc.
I haven't read the thread (apologies) but ISTR you provided such a
description to begin with. What Nicolas is asking is: what should happen
in other cases of interest? You may want to cover just that one special
case, but an implementation has to worry about *all* cases[fn:1]:
otherwise, there *will* be bug reports in the very near future and guess
who their target will be (hint: it won't be you :-) )
Hope-your-sense-of-humor-is-working-today-ly yours,
Nick
Footnotes:
[fn:1] It might punt of course: cover the special case only and raise an
error in all other cases e.g., but that's not particularly appealing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-09 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-06 18:54 Refiling list items Jeff Horn
2011-08-08 4:09 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-08 9:48 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-08 22:35 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-08 23:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-08 23:47 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-09 0:02 ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-09 2:31 ` suvayu ali
2011-08-09 0:20 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-08-09 0:40 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-09 0:45 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-10 10:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-10 15:16 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-17 9:32 ` Bastien
2011-08-22 16:12 ` Jeff Horn
2012-01-18 4:56 ` Jeff Horn
2013-06-28 21:09 ` Samuel Wales
2013-06-30 23:16 ` Bastien
2013-07-01 21:35 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-02 7:32 ` Bastien
2011-08-09 1:07 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-08 16:12 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-08 17:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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