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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>,
	Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: Refiling list items
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:32:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty9gfknw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aabhlgy8.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:05:35 +0200")

Hi Jeff,

thanks for bringing up this issue, and thanks all for the input.

I pushed three small changes to the org-refile interface:

1. before prompting the user for a refile target, put the point at the
   beginning of the region/subtree to refile.  This will make sure
   everyone understands we are refiling headlines, not text.

2. Improve the prompt itself, explicitely saying whether we are refiling
   a subtree or a region (containing subtree(s)).

3. Add a new option `org-refile-active-region-within-subtree' which,
   when turned on, allows the user to refile the active region, turning
   the first line into a headline using `org-toggle-heading'.

I think these are improvements going in the right direction -- let me
know what you think.  On the overall, I'm with Nicolas in thinking that
we need to be extra careful when we try to extend a functionality to
heterogeneous elements.

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> My point is that outside of its list, an item is just plain text.

Yes!

« Outside of the hive, a bee is just a fly. » (René Descartes)

:)

> Thus, why not take that into account? Instead of creating a magical
> function to refile items anywhere, let's just extend `org-refile' to
> work on a region of text which is not a sub-tree.

This is what I tried to achieve with the new option.

> At the moment, org-refile understands the concept of region, but checks
> if that region holds a sub-tree. What about removing that check, and
> adapt the code to text without trees? It will then be the user's problem
> if he wants to match apples and oranges. Furthermore, as a side effect,
> refiling an item would simply mean selecting it and using refile
> interface.

Thanks for this idea!

Best,

-- 
 Bastien

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-06 18:54 Refiling list items Jeff Horn
2011-08-08  4:09 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-08  9:48   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-08 22:35     ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-08 23:03       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-08 23:47         ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-09  0:02           ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-09  2:31             ` suvayu ali
2011-08-09  0:20           ` Nick Dokos
2011-08-09  0:40             ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-09  0:45               ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-10 10:05               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-08-10 15:16                 ` Jeff Horn
2011-08-17  9:32                 ` Bastien [this message]
2011-08-22 16:12                   ` Jeff Horn
2012-01-18  4:56                   ` Jeff Horn
2013-06-28 21:09                     ` Samuel Wales
2013-06-30 23:16                       ` Bastien
2013-07-01 21:35                         ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-02  7:32                           ` Bastien
2011-08-09  1:07           ` Florian Beck
2011-08-08 16:12   ` Florian Beck
2011-08-08 17:05     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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