From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Moving and resetting attachments
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:25:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmq3tjxs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fufgnpxi.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> What I meant was, first ask the user for a directory, then cycle through
>> the files and ask whether to move each file to that directory. The user
>> wouldn't specify the directory itself for each file. And with
>> `map-y-or-n-p', the user can just hit "!" to take care of all files.
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding your concern? The only time the ID attachment
>> directory scheme (which is indeed opaque) would come into play is when
>> the command was called with a prefix argument -- ie, when removing a
>> custom directory, and reverting to the automatic directory. In that
>> case, the directory would be automatically derived, and the user would
>> simply be presented with the choice to move each file there, or not.
>
> When asking for each file if it should be moved or not, you can end up
> with files in both the old and the new directory. My concern is that,
> when the old directory is a default ID directory, there is no simple way
> to get the files back. So, I think we should automatically move files in
> this case.
>
> I also agree with your special case described above.
Okay, makes sense. I hope we haven't totally scared off Florian...
Florian, are you interested in doing another version of the patch?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-04 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-31 12:29 Moving and resetting attachments Florian Lindner
2017-06-01 4:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-01 11:20 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-02 9:19 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02 9:51 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 12:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-02 14:34 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-02 16:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2017-06-04 7:59 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-04 23:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2017-06-06 13:56 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-07 7:52 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-10 7:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-13 8:49 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13 21:41 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-20 18:12 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-24 8:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-28 14:57 ` Florian Lindner
2017-06-13 8:53 ` Florian Lindner
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