From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setting properties when scrolling around buffer puts property in wrong headline
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 08:22:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft8S7bScW69ye8_WxU3wRCA9TgL2nZ_gMAo517qb-5+upA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Nov 1, 2013 3:34 PM, "Thorsten Jolitz" <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> I'm supposing there's no way around this... but I'm creating a
> >> taskjuggler document that's fairly wrong. I often find myself in a
> >> situation where I go to set a :depends: property to reference another
> >> headline and need to go see what it's task_id is. So, I scroll down,
> >> look at the task, then enter the correct task_id in the minibuffer
> >> (which is still active after doing C-c C-x p property-name RET), and
> >> then find that it's been inserted in a different headline since
> >> scrolling moves the point/cursor to a different headline.
>
> I would say its the expected behaviour - when the mini-buffer is still
> active, the command wasn't sent yet, and when you finally send it,
> Org-mode acts on the property drawer where point is at that moment.
>
Understood, and that's what I figured but wanted to check!
> You might want to read about using the mark, i.e. how to set the mark
> before searching the task-id, and then go back to that point before
> sending the command from the mini-buffer:
Will do. I constantly lose my mark when searching and selecting, so sounds
really helpful.
Thanks,
John
>
>
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> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-27 4:11 Setting properties when scrolling around buffer puts property in wrong headline John Hendy
2013-11-01 19:39 ` John Hendy
2013-11-01 20:33 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-11-03 14:22 ` John Hendy [this message]
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