From: Andrew Stribblehill <ads@wompom.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Preventing (or mitigating) accidental deletion in org-mode
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:30:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f38ae890908230530u34e4aa4fi31b034174c1d17ae@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m04oryka79.fsf@cam.ac.uk>
2009/8/23 Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>:
> On 2009-08-23 11:58 +0100, Nick Bell wrote:
>> Org-mode is great and I'd like to commit to it. However, I'm held back
>> by the apparent fragility of data stored in org-files. For example,
>> it's easy to delete entire folded trees of data with just a couple of
>> keystrokes or a mouse click.
>
> This should not be a problem as long as you know how the undo in Emacs
> works. You can even use browse-kill-ring¹ to see what you have deleted in
> Emacs.
...Provided you know that you killed something you didn't intend to.
However, it's easy to kill a tree without noticing it had content.
Maybe we could augment org-kill-line with some optional facility that
checks that it doesn't encompass a collapsed section -- or less
intrusively, emits a message saying it's killed a collapsed section.
I'm having a hard time seeing how to code it though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-23 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-23 10:58 Preventing (or mitigating) accidental deletion in org-mode Nick Bell
2009-08-23 12:04 ` Leo
2009-08-23 12:30 ` Andrew Stribblehill [this message]
2009-08-23 12:20 ` PT
2009-08-23 12:27 ` Nick Bell
2009-08-23 12:39 ` Leo
2009-08-23 12:59 ` Nick Bell
2009-08-23 14:39 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-08-23 18:39 ` Russell Adams
2009-08-23 18:45 ` Nick Bell
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