From: Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>
To: Eddward DeVilla <eddward@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: definition lists in org-mode
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:28:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468E6DAF.1040100@calicojack.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b71b18520707060852h2678b108vba74485776fb1a5@mail.gmail.com>
Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk> wrote:
>> After thinking about it; I have on occasion wanted to schedule a
>> checkboxed item into the agenda. This said I'm not convinced supporting
>> this is a good idea. Does anyone else have any views?
>
> I'm usually for collapsing similar things in to one more flexible
> thing, but there is a lot of meaning attached to something being a
> todo entry in the outline as opposed to being a mere checkbox in a
> list. Some times it would be nice to steal a feature of one and use
> it on the other, but the implicit difference is too useful I think to
> collapse them.
>
Agreed. My gut feeling is that they fulfill largely different purposes.
The problem is that I tend to make a decision to structure something
with lists & checkboxes, and later on discover I want an item in the
list to appear inside the agenda.
Duplicating this into an outline is one way to achieve this; but this
presents several problems:
- Your files rapidly become less DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and harder
to maintain.
- You loose the context of the list (i.e. any notion of sequence)
I guess these are the sorts of use-cases/trade-offs we should be
discussing as part of David O'Toole's community writing suggestion. Is
anything happening with this yet?
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 22:01 definition lists in org-mode Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-06 9:56 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-07-06 10:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-06 10:45 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-07-06 12:43 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-06 15:52 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-06 16:28 ` Rick Moynihan [this message]
2007-07-06 17:22 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-11 11:52 ` Suggestion: Jump points Rick Moynihan
2007-07-11 14:51 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-11 15:20 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-07-11 15:45 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-12 12:24 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-11 15:28 ` Scott Jaderholm
2007-07-11 16:29 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-07-11 18:23 ` Daniel J. Sinder
2007-09-03 16:21 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-06 15:33 ` definition lists in org-mode Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-06 15:25 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-06 10:44 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-07-06 15:43 ` Eddward DeVilla
2007-07-06 17:25 ` Carsten Dominik
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