From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request [7.3]
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:20:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aakg17g5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2tyipfgex.fsf@boostpro.com
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> When using Org for planning, I often find myself corrupting my Org
> files. All kinds of things can go wrong, but the basic issue is that
I do have a couple of rules I follow to avoid problems.
1. I usually have a blank line between the meta data (scheduled,
properties) and any subsequent text, whether part of that entry or
the following headline. I accomplish this by ensuring that my
capture templates all insert such a blank line, typically followed by
the date of insertion.
2. I also always use the =C-c C-d=, =C-c C-s= and =C-c C-x p= sequences
to manage the meta data so org takes care of keeping things sane.
However:
[...]
> So I'm requesting some more help from Org in maintaining proper Org
> syntax. Could Org have a mode that prevents things from being modified
> incorrectly? For example, it'd be awesome if dates were smart (TAB into
> one, hit return, get a smart date editor).
This would be quite nice, even something as simple as having RET, within
a time stamp, doing the equivalent of org-time-stamp or
org-time-stamp-inactive depending on the current state of the time
stamp.
> It'd be great if there were
> a way to make the ID property read-only (or really really hard to
> change).
This is where column mode comes in quite handy? I tend to use column
mode to edit properties and so I never come near the ID property as it
usually isn't displayed.
> I'd love it if there were a way to create a link to an org
> item that narrows the view to just that item, so I don't inadvertently
> mess anything else up.
org-narrow-to-subtree does some of this...
HTH,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 23.2.1
: using Org-mode version 7.3 (release_7.3.223.gc6a94)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 20:59 Feature request [7.3] Dave Abrahams
2010-12-08 4:37 ` Jeff Horn
2010-12-08 16:20 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2010-12-09 2:48 ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-09 8:57 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-09 10:42 ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-08 17:41 ` Manish
2010-12-08 22:14 ` Dave Abrahams
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