From: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org-mode ml <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Refiling list items
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:16:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+K2SAz_P-YnWb-5-bsMkXmw+qC3SPAi3-68jG==LWzWgwYSpQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aabhlgy8.fsf@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 06:05, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> From my point of view, lists cannot be a subset of headlines. Indeed,
> headlines are global structural elements, whereas items are local
> structural elements. In other words, moving an item outside of its
> scope, which is the list it belongs, will remove any structural meaning
> it has.
I don't disagree.
> For example, what is the point of moving an un-ordered item into an
> ordered list, or, worse, an un-ordered item into a description list?
> Sure, the item being moved and the destination list may share the same
> structure, but it's only a part of the equation.
I frequently use description lists as a quick way to get something
like "bold inline headers" for lists of test answers and questions.
Often, extended answers will be a description list item of several
paragraphs, or several paragraphs with sublists thrown in. The latter
doesn't work well. I agree I should probably figure out a better way
to organize this information, but it just feels natural at the time
and doesn't seem worth the trouble to fix after the fact.
> My point is that outside of its list, an item is just plain text.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Brilliant!
--
Jeffrey Horn
http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 15:17 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 [this message]
2011-08-17 9:32 ` Bastien
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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