emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Change example timestamps to not occur in headlines
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:53:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft_eaRW8xioc39H1kQXe=_4hszxYPGBr-CW1m4rP+vnsag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6DajKCPMdgKLaC+63MpW=R7zSyddCpFCoc2=hvP4O4z+nr9w@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Brian van den Broek
<brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 April 2012 18:16, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Brian van den Broek
>> <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've attached a small patch to the documentation that resolves a
>>> conflict between the manual's advice not to include timestamps in
>>> headlines and some of its examples where it does just that.
>>>
>>
>> Can you point to the discouragement? I do this and would like to know
>> why it's discouraged but didn't see anything noting it in the manual
>> section on dates and timestamps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> The first footnote on
> <http://orgmode.org/manual/Handling-links.html#Handling-links>, for
> instance. There may be more, but this is the one I could find,
> quickly.

Gotcha. Just my take -- your patch made me think it was a major
offense. The man seems to just mention that it can mess up headline
linking. Not a big deal and still is a valid point, but wasn't what I
expected. Thanks for the link!


John

>
> Best,
>
> Brian vdB

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20 16:01 Change example timestamps to not occur in headlines Brian van den Broek
2012-04-20 16:16 ` John Hendy
2012-04-20 16:18   ` Brian van den Broek
2012-04-20 16:53     ` John Hendy [this message]
2012-04-22 16:00       ` Samuel Wales
2012-04-23 10:16         ` Bastien
2012-04-23 12:44           ` Brian van den Broek
2012-04-23 12:52             ` Bastien
2012-04-23 17:08           ` Samuel Wales
2012-04-23 17:17             ` Samuel Wales
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-20 16:16 Brian van den Broek

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='CA+M2ft_eaRW8xioc39H1kQXe=_4hszxYPGBr-CW1m4rP+vnsag@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=jw.hendy@gmail.com \
    --cc=brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).