Re: Re: Proposed key binding changes: archiving and attachments

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Proposed key binding changes: archiving and attachments
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:56:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D643D4C8-AF31-476A-BD82-712BDB31B067@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF38BF9E-2F87-4C20-903A-CE2401749CBE@gmail.com>

On Nov 6, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote:
>
>> Now that I've hit the update, I've noticed two things:
>>
>> C-c C-x C-a unexpectedly moved a tree to an archive file. Seems I  
>> didn't really pay a lot attention to the discussion, so I simply  
>> set org-archive-default-command to my preferred value org-toggle- 
>> archive-tag.
>>
>> Now in the agenda 'a' asked for confirmation, which is as  
>> discussed, but I'm not really happy with this, because I had to  
>> remap "a" in org-agenda-keymap (and then I learned that it's  
>> different from org-agenda-mode-map, which I didn't know) to org- 
>> agenda-archive-default.
>>
>> If someone upgrades to the next release of org-mode, wouldn't it  
>> offer a smoother migration path to:
>>
>> - set org-archive-default-command to something that asks for  
>> confirmation and reminds the user that he can set it to another  
>> value, to get rid of the question
>> - and then use this command for both C-c C-x C-a in files and 'a'  
>> in the agenda?
>>
>> That way the user gets reminded before he breaks something, but  
>> only has to customise things once.
>>
>> Just an idea.
>
> That is an idea, but with the fast update schedule of Org, this would
> quickly lead to a big mess in prompts and settings to be made, so I
> do not think this is practical.
>
> The issue with org-agenda-keymap and org-agenda-mode-map has to
> do with the mouse - maybe this is not really necessary - I made this  
> when I did not really understand keymaps very well, a looong time  
> ago.  I'll take another look.

I think I can get rid of this variable, and I just did, so now there  
is only org-agenda-mode-map (org-agenda-keymap remains as an alias, so  
that bindings in this map will still work.)

I am pushing it out, we will see if it breaks something.  But I do not  
expect problems.

- Carsten

>
> - Carsten
>
>>
>> (Sorry for the long lines, I'm writing this in vi, because emacs on  
>> homebox isn't running... long story.)
>>
>> Carsten Dominik schrieb:
>>> These are convincing arguments from you all, so I will leave things
>>> as they
>>> are, except that I will make "a" in the agenda prompt for [y]es and
>>> then do the archiving, using the default archiving command.  So
>>> archiving from the agenda will then be `a y'.
>> -- 
>>       Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
>>                            TauPan on Ircnet and Freenode ;)
>>
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> - Carsten
>
>
>

- Carsten