From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug: Docstrings of =org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date= and =org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp= unclear [9.2 (release_9.2-215-g5b39d8 @ /home/mbork/others-works/emacs/org-mode/lisp/)]
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:08:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0j2yf6x.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8u2FAcess+-ag9+t09Y58jjp49jFkDJb+j2qju0Td_atA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2019-06-23, at 21:29, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> this looks good, but i wonder if newcomers get confused about that todo thing.
>
> i am not proposing any solution, just brainstorming.
>
> the word todo is used in a few contexts in org:
>
> - the todo keyword per se [TODO]
> - todoish keywords as opposed to doneish keywords
> - the global todo view as opposed to the general views that cover
> time [called daily/weekly], structured search [called tags], and
> free-form search [called search]
>
> newcomers might wonder if the global todo view does anything that the
> general views cannot do, otherwise why does it exist.
>
> some newcomers might even wonder if todo means keyword as opposed to blank.
>
> don't take this too seriously, but i wonder if that todo- confuses
> newcomers even though the docstring is now clear.
Good points, though (as you said) this is out of scope of my humble
patch:-).
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-24 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-18 6:55 Bug: Docstrings of =org-agenda-todo-ignore-with-date= and =org-agenda-todo-ignore-timestamp= unclear [9.2 (release_9.2-215-g5b39d8 @ /home/mbork/others-works/emacs/org-mode/lisp/)] Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-19 19:19 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-06-23 11:23 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-06-23 19:29 ` Samuel Wales
2019-06-24 19:08 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-06-24 19:09 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-07 7:51 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-09 10:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-11 19:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-12 8:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2019-07-14 20:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-07-14 22:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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