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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Subject: Re: bulk action mark persistence
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To: Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>
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Hi Skip,

Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com> writes:

> When I perform a bulk action on items in the agenda, the marked items
> get unmarked after the action is completed. This is a problem if I
> want to perform multiple actions on the marked entries. Here is a use
> case. I use capture.org to collect actionable items throughout the
> day. Occasionally I view a special "refile" agenda in which I perform
> bulk actions on selected entries such as tagging them, turning them
> into TODO items, and filing them into appropriate targets in other
> files. It would be far more convenient if the bulk action mark
> persisted after each action.

You can now (from git master) set `org-agenda-persistent-marks' to `t'
and marked items for bulk action will persist after the action is done.

To switch this on/off on the fly, hit `p' after `B'.

Thanks for this idea!

-- 
 Bastien