Re: Re: Proposed key binding changes: archiving and attachments

From: Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposed key binding changes: archiving and attachments
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:11:34 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ac505ad0911061711j9fcc5en4dc4b2e013c5f68e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D643D4C8-AF31-476A-BD82-712BDB31B067@uva.nl>

Why not a single A e.g.

A    org-archive-to-archive-sibling

instead of
C-c C-x A    org-archive-to-archive-sibling

I use org-archive-to-archive-sibling
alot to diminish my organizer.org and a silge and simple key A (or
Shift-a) it would be good.

Daniel

2009/11/6 Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>:
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote:
>>
>>> Now that I've hit the update, I've noticed two things:
>>>
>>> C-c C-x C-a unexpectedly moved a tree to an archive file. Seems I didn't
>>> really pay a lot attention to the discussion, so I simply set
>>> org-archive-default-command to my preferred value org-toggle-archive-tag.
>>>
>>> Now in the agenda 'a' asked for confirmation, which is as discussed, but
>>> I'm not really happy with this, because I had to remap "a" in
>>> org-agenda-keymap (and then I learned that it's different from
>>> org-agenda-mode-map, which I didn't know) to org-agenda-archive-default.
>>>
>>> If someone upgrades to the next release of org-mode, wouldn't it offer a
>>> smoother migration path to:
>>>
>>> - set org-archive-default-command to something that asks for confirmation
>>> and reminds the user that he can set it to another value, to get rid of the
>>> question
>>> - and then use this command for both C-c C-x C-a in files and 'a' in the
>>> agenda?
>>>
>>> That way the user gets reminded before he breaks something, but only has
>>> to customise things once.
>>>
>>> Just an idea.
>>
>> That is an idea, but with the fast update schedule of Org, this would
>> quickly lead to a big mess in prompts and settings to be made, so I
>> do not think this is practical.
>>
>> The issue with org-agenda-keymap and org-agenda-mode-map has to
>> do with the mouse - maybe this is not really necessary - I made this when
>> I did not really understand keymaps very well, a looong time ago.  I'll take
>> another look.
>
> I think I can get rid of this variable, and I just did, so now there is only
> org-agenda-mode-map (org-agenda-keymap remains as an alias, so that bindings
> in this map will still work.)
>
> I am pushing it out, we will see if it breaks something.  But I do not
> expect problems.
>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>>
>>> (Sorry for the long lines, I'm writing this in vi, because emacs on
>>> homebox isn't running... long story.)
>>>
>>> Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> These are convincing arguments from you all, so I will leave things
>>>> as they
>>>> are, except that I will make "a" in the agenda prompt for [y]es and
>>>> then do the archiving, using the default archiving command.  So
>>>> archiving from the agenda will then be `a y'.
>>>
>>> --
>>>      Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
>>>                           TauPan on Ircnet and Freenode ;)
>>>
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>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
>
> - Carsten
>
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