From: Manish <mailtomanish.sharma@gmail.com>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request [7.3]
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:11:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikjaXo4BM1gbiGNZvjYZRddYRFQY_0VbWHcWqqv@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tyipfgex.fsf@boostpro.com>
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> 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
> agenda items have a syntax, and it's easy to violate, especially when
> I'm going *fast*, which after all is what Org is supposed to enable!
>
> For example, a typical captured item looks like:
>
> ** TODO Set up yasnippet
> SCHEDULED: <2010-11-22 Mon>
> :PROPERTIES:
> :Link: [[some-nasty-link]]
> :ID: A0B4159C-D796-40DF-9ADD-93DF03577B68
> :END:
> [2010-11-20 Sat 20:17]
>
> Now, suppose I'm looking at this in the agenda and I want to add some
> commentary.
I am not sure what you mean by agenda here since you don't see the
full entry in the agenda.
> Where should I open the new line? If I choose wrongly, my
> agenda will start to misbehave (e.g. items will appear to be
> un-reschedulable because they'll acquire a second SCHEDULED date).
>
When in the entry in org file, use `C-c C-z' and when in agenda just
use `z' to add a correctly formatted and timestamped note.
> 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).
FWIW, I find shift+up/down arrow sufficiently magical for my use case,
but I suppose you have already tried that.
> It'd be great if there were
> a way to make the ID property read-only (or really really hard to
> change). 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. Do you get the idea?
You mean like if you clicked/returned on an item in agenda it should
take you to the entry in org file but narrowed to that item? I had
earlier added a call to org-narrow (I think) to the code that enables
follow mode and the code that jumps to the entry in the org file. It
used to work nice but was a minor irritation when I needed to widen it
all the time. I have since lost the code but it should be reasonable
easy to reproduce.
HTH
--
Manish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 17:41 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
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 [this message]
2010-12-08 22:14 ` Dave Abrahams
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