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* Release 6.28
@ 2009-06-25  7:10 Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25  7:14 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-25  7:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Hi,

I have uploaded release 6.28.  Once more I urge you to read
the release notes carefully, there are many very interesting changes.

Enjoy!

- Carsten

Changes in Version 6.28
=======================

Agenda changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Refiling now works from the agenda
===================================

The command `C-c C-w' can be executed to refile an entry shown in
the agenda.  After the command, the entry will no longer be shown
in the agenda.  It it is still in an agenda file, refresh the
agenda to bring it up from it's new context.

Bulk action
============

You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are

  - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
  - Archive all selected entries
  - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
    blocking or note-taking.
  - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries

We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.

Improvements related to `#+begin' blocks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Indented blocks
================

`#+begin_ ... +#end_...' blocks may now be indented along
with the structure of your document.  So the `#+' lines no
longer need to start in column 0, these lines can be, along
with the block contents, indented arbitrarily.  Org supports
this during editing with "C-c '", and now finally treats them
consistently during export across all backends.  This makes
these blocks work much better with plain list structure
editing, and it also looks better if you like to indent text
under outline headings.  For example:

   *** This is some headline
       #+begin_example
       here we have an example
       #+end_example

       - a plain list
         - a sublist item
           - a second sublist item

ORG-CENTER-START
centering within the plain list item
ORG-CENTER-END

         #+begin_example
          This example does terminate the sublist,
          the indentation of the #+begin line counts.
         #+end_example

       - but the top level plain lists continues here


 From now on, the indentation of such a block decides whether
it is part of a plain list item or if it is actually
terminating the list.  This was so far inconsistent between
editing behavior and export, now it is consistent.

The content of the block, i.e. the text between the #+ lines
gets an extra indentation of two space characters, which I
find visually pleasing.  You can change the amount of extra
indentation using the variable
`org-src-content-indentation'.

This was a pretty complex change, achieved in many small
steps over the last couple of weeks.  It cleans up one of the
more annoying inconsistencies in Org.  I hope it will work,
but I am sure you will let me know if not.

Indented tables
================

Also tables can be fully indented now.  What is new here is
that the `#+TBLFM' line, and also things like `#+caption',
`#+label', `#+attr_...' etc can be indented along with the
table.  Again, this makes the look of the document better and
allows for proper plain list structure editing.

Protected blocks
=================

Some `#+begin_ ... +#end_...' blocks contain text that should not
be processed like normal Org-mode text.  `example' and `src'
block fall into this class, and so do `ditaa' blocks, for
example.  The content in such blocks is now properly fontified in
a single face (called `org-block').  This was a frequently
requested feature.  The list of blocks that should be protected
from normal Org-mode fontification is defined in the variable
`org-protecting-blocks'.  Modules defining new blocks should add
to this variable when needed.  `org-exp-blocks.el' does this
already.

Hide and show the contents of blocks
=====================================

Blocks can now be folded and unfolded with `TAB'.  If you
want to have all blocks folded on startup, customize
`org-hide-block-startup' or use the `#+STARTUP' options
`hideblocks' or `showblocks' to overrule this variable on a
per-file basis.

Thanks to Eric Schulte for a patch to this effect.

Moved Eric Schulte's org-exp-blocks.el into the core
=====================================================

This seems to be getting a lot of use now, so it is now part of
the core and loaded automatically.  This package can now also be
used to define new blocks.  Customize the variable
`org-export-blocks' or use the function
`org-export-blocks-add-block'.


New and updated contributed modules
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

org-export-generic.el is now a contributed package.
====================================================

This new module allows users to export an Org page to any type of
output by constructing the output using a list of prefixes,
format specifications and suffixes for the various types of org
data (headlines, paragraphs, list bullets, etc).  Use the
`org-set-generic-type' function to define your own export types
and have them bound to a key (use an upper-case letter for user
export definitions).

Thanks to Wes Hardaker for this contribution with a lot of
potential.

New contributed modules org-mac-iCal.el by Christopher Suckling
================================================================

See the [documentation on Worg].


[documentation on Worg]: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mac-iCal.php

org-jira.el: New file, by Jonathan Arkell
==========================================

Links to Jira tickets.

org-R.el: Updated.
===================

/org-R.el/ has been updated, thanks to Dan Davison for this.

`[ TABLE-OF-CONTENTS]' is now also used for LaTeX export
=========================================================

This cookie will mark the location of the `\tableofcontents'
macro.  Triggered by a report by Yuva.


Changes to the clocking system
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

New option `org-clock-out-switch-to-state'.
============================================

Clocking out can now switch the task to a particular state.

This was a request by Manish.

More control about what time is shown in mode line while clocking
==================================================================

- If you have an `Effort' property defined, its value is also
   shown in the mode line, and you can configure `org-clock-sound'
   to get an alert when your planned time for a particular item is
   over.

- When an entry has been clocked earlier, the time shown in the
   mode line while the item is being clocked is now the sum of all
   previous, and the current clock.

- The exception to the previous rule are repeating entries: There
   the clock time will only be clocking instances recorded since
   the last time the entry when through a repeat event.  The time
   of that event is now recorded in the `LAST_REPEAT' property.

- You can use the property CLOCK_MODELINE_TOTAL to get
   control over what times are displayed in the mode line, see
   the manual for more information.

- The new command `C-c C-x C-e' can be used to change the Effort
   estimate and therefore to change the moment when the clock sound
   will go off.

- The clock string in the modeline now has a special font,
   `org-mode-line-clock'.  This was a proposal by Samuel Wales.

- Clicking on the mode line display of the clock now offers a
   menu with important clock functions like clocking out, or
   switching the clock to a different task.

Thanks to Konstantin Antipin for part of the implementation, and
thanks to Bernt Hansen for helping to iron out the issues related
to repeated tasks.


Miscellaneous changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Allow to specify the alignment in table columns by hand
========================================================

Similar to the `<20>' cookies that allow to specify a maximum
width for a table column, you can now also specify the alignment
in order to overrule the automatic alignment choice based on the
dominance of number or non-number fields in a column.  The
corresponding cookies are `<l>' and `<r>' for left and right side
alignment, respectively.  These can be combined with maximum
width specification like this: `<r15>'.

This was a proposal by Michael Brand.

Stop logging and blocking when selecting a TODO state
======================================================

Sometimes you want to quickly select or change a TODO state of an
item, without being bothered by your setup for blocking state
changes and logging entries.  So in this case, you don't want the
change be seen as a true state change.

You can now set the variable
`org-treat-S-cursor-todo-selection-as-state-change' to nil.
Then, when you use `S-left' and `S-right' to quickly flip through
states, blocking and logging will be temporarily disabled.

Export BBDB anniversaries to iCalendar
=======================================

See the variable `org-icalendar-include-bbdb-anniversaries'.

This was a request by Richard Riley, thanks to Thomas Baumann
for the prompt implementation.

Macro definitions can be collected in an #+SETUPFILE
=====================================================

If you want to use many macros in different files, collect the
`#+macro' lines into a file and link to them with

#+SETUPFILE: path/to-file

Subtree cloning now also shifts inactive dates
===============================================

When using the command `org-clone-subtree-with-time-shift', time
stamps will be shifted for each clone.  So far, this applied only
to active timestamps, but now it does apply to inactive
ones as well.

HTML table export: Assign alternating classes to rows
======================================================

The new variable `org-export-table-row-tags' can now be set up in
a way so that different table lines get special CSS classes
assigned.  This can be used for example to choose different
background colors for odd and even lines, respectively.  The
docstring of the variable contains this example:

   (setq org-export-table-row-tags
         (cons '(if head
                "<tr>"
              (if (= (mod nline 2) 1)
                  "<tr class=\"tr-odd\">"
                "<tr class=\"tr-even\">"))
           "</tr>"))


It makes use of the local variables `head' and `nline' which are
used to check whether the current line is a header line, and whether
it is an odd or an even line.  Since this is fully programmable,
you can do other things as well.

This was a request by Xin Shi.

Remember: target headline may be a function
============================================

When setting up remember templates, the target headline may now
be a function, similarly to what is allowed for the target file.
The functions needs to return the headline that should be used.

Remove flyspell overlays in places where they are not wanted
=============================================================

We now keep flyspell from highlighting non-words in links.

Update targets in the Makefile
===============================

Some new targets in the default Makefile make it easier to update
through git to the latest version: `update' and `up2'.  Here are
the definitions.

   update:
           git pull
           ${MAKE} clean
           ${MAKE} all

   up2:    update
           sudo ${MAKE} install


This was a request by Konstantin Antipin.



BUG fixes
=========

As always, lots and lots of bug fixes.  Thanks for all who
contributed with reports, analysis and patches.

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-25  7:14 ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 13:05 ` Bastien
                   ` (6 subsequent siblings)
  7 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-25  7:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> Changes in Version 6.28
> =======================
>
> Bulk action
> ============
>
> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>
> - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
> - Archive all selected entries
> - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>   blocking or note-taking.
> - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>
> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.

Note that this new command is not yet tested well and has
destructive potential.  Please test it under appropriate
security measures, i.e. backups or git-protected files.

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25  7:14 ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-25 13:05 ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 13:19 ` Bastien
                   ` (5 subsequent siblings)
  7 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2009-06-25 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Thanks for this release!

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> - If you have an `Effort' property defined, its value is also
>   shown in the mode line, and you can configure `org-clock-sound'
>   to get an alert when your planned time for a particular item is
>   over.

I love this new feature.  

Perhaps it would make sense to have an option `org-clock-default-effort'
(or `org-clock-default-timer') for tasks that have no Effort property?

-- 
 Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25  7:14 ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 13:05 ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 13:19 ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 13:58   ` Peter Frings
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 13:59 ` Sebastian Rose
                   ` (4 subsequent siblings)
  7 siblings, 2 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2009-06-25 13:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Bulk action
> ============
>
> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>
>  - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
>  - Archive all selected entries
>  - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>    blocking or note-taking.
>  - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>
> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.

I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used 
to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.  

Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature more
consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like dired,
buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.

Here is how the keys are mapped on various modes:

| key | dired  & bookmark-mode & buff-menu | Org           |
|-----+------------------------------------+---------------|
| m   | mark                               | month view    |
| u   | unmark                             |               |
| d   | mark for deletion                  | day view      |
| D   | delete marked                      | include diary |
| x   | perform actions                    | exit agenda   |
| U   | unmark (only in dired)             | [unset]       |

I propose to use [dmuUx] the same way in Org.  We could move the daily,
weekly, monthly view to respectively D,W,M.

This would discard the diary inclusion (currently on 'D') and the
display of the Moon's phases (currently on 'M') -- not sure whether a
lot of people use this anyway, and these commands can still find key
bindings. 

I like 'U' from dired, it's very convenient to be able to delete all
marks at once (I which this could be implemented in buff-menu.el and
bookmark-mode as well...)

Carsten, what do you think?

-- 
 Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 13:19 ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 13:58   ` Peter Frings
  2009-06-25 16:16     ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 17:34     ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
  1 sibling, 2 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Peter Frings @ 2009-06-25 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On 25 Jun 2009, at 15:19, Bastien wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> Bulk action
>> ===========
[snip]
> I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used
> to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.

Same here. It'll take some time to adopt. But...

> Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature more
> consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like dired,
> buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.

I also support this request.

> Here is how the keys are mapped on various modes:
>
> | key | dired  & bookmark-mode & buff-menu | Org           |
> |-----+------------------------------------+---------------|
[snip]
> | D   | delete marked                      | include diary |
[snip]

> I propose to use [dmuUx] the same way in Org.  We could move the  
> daily,
> weekly, monthly view to respectively D,W,M.

Mapping the D to 'daily view' would not make it the same as in dired.

Of course, if the perception of the Agenda's content and behavior is  
sufficiently different from that of dired, the keybindings do not have  
to be the same. Maybe it's worth looking at how other packages (like  
gnus and friends) are treating their summaries?


Having said all that, I'll take whatever bindings org-mode ships with;  
you can always change them :-)

Cheers,
Peter.

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
                   ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 13:19 ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 13:59 ` Sebastian Rose
  2009-06-25 17:02   ` Eddward DeVilla
  2009-06-25 17:10 ` Tom Tobin
                   ` (3 subsequent siblings)
  7 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Rose @ 2009-06-25 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Thank's Carsten!


Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> Improvements related to `#+begin' blocks
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Indented blocks
> ================

> Indented tables
> ================


Yeeess! This is sooo good! These are my favourites! They solves
indentation problems in the text following such blocks too!

We now can just type ahead, no need to indent the following text by hand
again!





Best regards

    Sebastian

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 13:19 ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 13:58   ` Peter Frings
@ 2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 14:54     ` peter.frings
                       ` (3 more replies)
  1 sibling, 4 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-25 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Bastien wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Bulk action
>> ============
>>
>> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
>> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
>> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
>> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
>> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>>
>> - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
>> - Archive all selected entries
>> - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>>   blocking or note-taking.
>> - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>>
>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>
> I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used
> to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.

This is why `C-x C-s' seems to me the perfect key for this.


>
> Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature more
> consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like dired,
> buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.

You know, I have been agonizing over these bindings,
switching them back and forward.  Obviously, I would like
to have things like in dired and similar programs.

I don't want to switch `d' to `D', no way.  One of the consistent  
things in the agenda keymap is that caleandar/diary related keys are  
upper case.  `d' and `w' are not negotiable.

With `d' and `w' in place, `m' and `y' are consistent, logical.   
However, I don't believe anyone uses monthly views, I am sure
that no-one uses yearly views, right?  So I will negotiate over
`m', i someone can propose a viable alternative that makes sense.

u and U are free, so this will be good and we should use this.

I strongly hesitate to use "x" for action, because it has
been "exit" for so many years, and because I don't want
anyone to execute this command by accident....

- Carsten

>
> Here is how the keys are mapped on various modes:
>
> | key | dired  & bookmark-mode & buff-menu | Org           |
> |-----+------------------------------------+---------------|
> | m   | mark                               | month view    |
> | u   | unmark                             |               |
> | d   | mark for deletion                  | day view      |
> | D   | delete marked                      | include diary |
> | x   | perform actions                    | exit agenda   |
> | U   | unmark (only in dired)             | [unset]       |
>
> I propose to use [dmuUx] the same way in Org.  We could move the  
> daily,
> weekly, monthly view to respectively D,W,M.
>
> This would discard the diary inclusion (currently on 'D') and the
> display of the Moon's phases (currently on 'M') -- not sure whether a
> lot of people use this anyway, and these commands can still find key
> bindings.
>
> I like 'U' from dired, it's very convenient to be able to delete all
> marks at once (I which this could be implemented in buff-menu.el and
> bookmark-mode as well...)
>
> Carsten, what do you think?
>
> -- 
> Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-25 14:54     ` peter.frings
  2009-06-25 14:57     ` Bernt Hansen
                       ` (2 subsequent siblings)
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From: peter.frings @ 2009-06-25 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist; +Cc: Bastien Guerry


On 25 Jun 2009, at 16:24, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Bastien wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Bulk action
>>> ============



> With `d' and `w' in place, `m' and `y' are consistent, logical.   
> However, I don't believe anyone uses monthly views, I am sure
> that no-one uses yearly views, right?  So I will negotiate over
> `m', i someone can propose a viable alternative that makes sense.

With 'd' and 'w' in place, I would keep the 'm', even if it is less  
used (especially for less used interactions, consistency is a must).


> I strongly hesitate to use "x" for action, because it has
> been "exit" for so many years, and because I don't want
> anyone to execute this command by accident....

Through, but for many new [org-mode] users it wont be a problem.  
AFAIK, `x' in dired requires a confirmation, so you've got an escape  
hatch. The `x' could be remapped to `Q' (I believe gnus makes the same  
distinction between q and Q).

A possible way out it that we can switch between two sets of  
keybindings, a 'compatibility' one and a 'dired'-like one. Default  
would be the compatibility set.


Sometimes one spends much more time thinking about such things than  
actually implementing stuff... :-(  But in the end, it is usually  
worth it.

Cheers,
Peter.

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 14:54     ` peter.frings
@ 2009-06-25 14:57     ` Bernt Hansen
  2009-06-25 15:34       ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 16:15     ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 17:00     ` Samuel Wales
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bernt Hansen @ 2009-06-25 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> With `d' and `w' in place, `m' and `y' are consistent, logical.
> However, I don't believe anyone uses monthly views, I am sure
> that no-one uses yearly views, right?  So I will negotiate over
> `m', i someone can propose a viable alternative that makes sense.

I use monthly view... monthly :)  To get my clock report usage for the
file over the past month.  I restrict the agenda to the single file when
doing this monthly view to get clock time just for this project and that
could possibly be done with a dynamic block.

I've been enjoying not having my generated clock reports in my git
history though and the agenda monthly view is perfect for that.

-Bernt

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 14:57     ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2009-06-25 15:34       ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-25 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bernt Hansen; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On Jun 25, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> With `d' and `w' in place, `m' and `y' are consistent, logical.
>> However, I don't believe anyone uses monthly views, I am sure
>> that no-one uses yearly views, right?  So I will negotiate over
>> `m', i someone can propose a viable alternative that makes sense.
>
> I use monthly view... monthly :)  To get my clock report usage for the
> file over the past month.  I restrict the agenda to the single file  
> when
> doing this monthly view to get clock time just for this project and  
> that
> could possibly be done with a dynamic block.
>
> I've been enjoying not having my generated clock reports in my git
> history though and the agenda monthly view is perfect for that.

Nobody is talking about abandoning monthly view - only about putting  
it on a different key.

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-25 14:54     ` peter.frings
  2009-06-25 14:57     ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2009-06-25 16:15     ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 19:34       ` Eric S Fraga
  2009-06-25 17:00     ` Samuel Wales
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2009-06-25 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used
>> to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.
>
> This is why `C-x C-s' seems to me the perfect key for this.

I was not aware `C-x C-s' is also available from the agenda, great.

> You know, I have been agonizing over these bindings,
> switching them back and forward.  Obviously, I would like
> to have things like in dired and similar programs.
>
> I don't want to switch `d' to `D', no way.  One of the consistent things
> in the agenda keymap is that caleandar/diary related keys are  upper
> case.  `d' and `w' are not negotiable.

What about having those dired-like keys with a modifier?

M-d: mark for deletion
M-m: mark for operation
M-u: unmark this entry
M-x: operate on marked entries
M-D: delete marked entries
M-U: unmark all

This way, no need to change anything from the current keybindings 
just add these new ones.  Having a modifier is also safer for M-x 
and reflect the fact that we are in a special operating mode in 
the agenda...

(By no means I want to be fussy about the current keybindings, it 
just I thought it was worth discussing this before we got used to
the default keybindings.)

-- 
 Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 13:58   ` Peter Frings
@ 2009-06-25 16:16     ` Bastien
  2009-06-25 17:34     ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2009-06-25 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Frings; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Peter Frings <peter.frings@agfa.com> writes:

> Of course, if the perception of the Agenda's content and behavior is
> sufficiently different from that of dired, the keybindings do not have
> to be the same. Maybe it's worth looking at how other packages (like
> gnus and friends) are treating their summaries?

FWIW, Gnus has a completely different way of handling marks, 
using # and other keybindings...  but I wouldn't take this as
an example of some *core* emacs package like buff-menu.el and
bookmark-mode... 

-- 
 Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 14:24   ` Carsten Dominik
                       ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 16:15     ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 17:00     ` Samuel Wales
  2009-06-26  5:18       ` Carsten Dominik
  3 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Samuel Wales @ 2009-06-25 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Hi Carsten,

As always this is a great release.

On 2009-06-25, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is why `C-x C-s' seems to me the perfect key for this.

Agree.

>> Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature more
>> consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like dired,
>> buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.

Agree.

> You know, I have been agonizing over these bindings,
> switching them back and forward.  Obviously, I would like
> to have things like in dired and similar programs.
>
> I don't want to switch `d' to `D', no way.  One of the consistent
> things in the agenda keymap is that caleandar/diary related keys are
> upper case.  `d' and `w' are not negotiable.

OK, how about this?  (Not trying to /negotiate/, but offer another poss :).)

Keep archive-related commands together.  Also allow room for the future.

aa does what a does now
av does what v does

Keep view-related commands together.  Also keep dwmy consistency.
Also allow room for the future.

vd does what d does now
vw
vm
vy

Keep dired compatibility.

m marks <-- i like this a lot
something reasonable to execute, like x or M
u unmarks
U unmarks all

Possible?  Or still not enough?

-- 
Myalgic encephalomyelitis denialism is causing death and severe suffering,
worse than MS.  Conflicts of interest are destroying research.  /You/ can
get the disease at any time permanently.  Do science and justice matter to
you?  http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 13:59 ` Sebastian Rose
@ 2009-06-25 17:02   ` Eddward DeVilla
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Eddward DeVilla @ 2009-06-25 17:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Sebastian Rose<sebastian_rose@gmx.de> wrote:
> Thank's Carsten!
>
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>> Improvements related to `#+begin' blocks
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Indented blocks
>> ================
>
>> Indented tables
>> ================
>
>
> Yeeess! This is sooo good! These are my favourites! They solves
> indentation problems in the text following such blocks too!
>
> We now can just type ahead, no need to indent the following text by hand
> again!
>

This message is one of the reasons org-mode deserves to win the
contest over at SourceForge.  It seems the community inspires the
developers and the developers then inspire the community.

Edd

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
                   ` (3 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 13:59 ` Sebastian Rose
@ 2009-06-25 17:10 ` Tom Tobin
  2009-06-25 18:38 ` Xin Shi
                   ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  7 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Tom Tobin @ 2009-06-25 17:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Carsten
Dominik<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Improvements related to `#+begin' blocks
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These are fantastic changes!  They fix the main warts I've come across
in trying to use org-mode to take development notes, and I'm happy to
see them land.  Thanks!

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 13:58   ` Peter Frings
  2009-06-25 16:16     ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 17:34     ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga @ 2009-06-25 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Peter Frings; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

At Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:58:11 +0200,
Peter Frings wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2009, at 15:19, Bastien wrote:
> > Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> > Bulk action
> >> ===========
> [snip]
> > I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used
> > to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.
> 
> Same here. It'll take some time to adopt. But...

Funny thing is that I had *finally* got to the point of remembering to
use 's' instead of C-xs!

> > I propose to use [dmuUx] the same way in Org.  We could move the
> > daily,
> > weekly, monthly view to respectively D,W,M.

I would prefer to leave d, w and m as they are; after all, an agenda
view is about days, weeks, months, ...  and so the time based actions
seem most appropriate as simple keys.

> Having said all that, I'll take whatever bindings org-mode ships with;
> you can always change them :-)

Yes, of course!  So, in that context, you can all ignore my comment
above.   However, for newbies, I would argue that the day/week/month
views are more likely to be understood and used than bulk commands, at
least until they cease to be newbies?

Just my 2 cents (euro or dollar) worth.

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
                   ` (4 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 17:10 ` Tom Tobin
@ 2009-06-25 18:38 ` Xin Shi
  2009-06-25 20:05 ` Matthew Lundin
  2009-07-01  7:20 ` Ulf Stegemann
  7 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Xin Shi @ 2009-06-25 18:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


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Hi Carsten,


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded release 6.28.  Once more I urge you to read
> the release notes carefully, there are many very interesting changes.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> - Carsten
>
> Changes in Version 6.28
> =======================
>
> Agenda changes
> ......
>
> Miscellaneous changes
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> ....
>
> HTML table export: Assign alternating classes to rows
> ======================================================
>
> The new variable `org-export-table-row-tags' can now be set up in
> a way so that different table lines get special CSS classes
> assigned.  This can be used for example to choose different
> background colors for odd and even lines, respectively.  The
> docstring of the variable contains this example:
>
>  (setq org-export-table-row-tags
>        (cons '(if head
>               "<tr>"
>             (if (= (mod nline 2) 1)
>                 "<tr class=\"tr-odd\">"
>               "<tr class=\"tr-even\">"))
>          "</tr>"))
>
>
> It makes use of the local variables `head' and `nline' which are
> used to check whether the current line is a header line, and whether
> it is an odd or an even line.  Since this is fully programmable,
> you can do other things as well.
>
> This was a request by Xin Shi.
>

I've just tested it. It works great!

Thank you!

Xin

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 16:15     ` Bastien
@ 2009-06-25 19:34       ` Eric S Fraga
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2009-06-25 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bastien; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

At Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:15:24 +0200,
Bastien wrote:
> 
> What about having those dired-like keys with a modifier?
> 
> M-d: mark for deletion
> M-m: mark for operation
> M-u: unmark this entry
> M-x: operate on marked entries

All the others could be reasonable but I think you'd have problems
with this one (M-x) in Emacs...  sorry for pedantic email! ;-)

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
                   ` (5 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 18:38 ` Xin Shi
@ 2009-06-25 20:05 ` Matthew Lundin
  2009-07-01  7:20 ` Ulf Stegemann
  7 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Lundin @ 2009-06-25 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have uploaded release 6.28.  Once more I urge you to read
> the release notes carefully, there are many very interesting changes.

Thanks, as ever, for this fantastic update! I'm looking forward to using
the new batch agenda operations. 

- Matt

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25 17:00     ` Samuel Wales
@ 2009-06-26  5:18       ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26 10:59         ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-26  5:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Samuel Wales; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On Jun 25, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> As always this is a great release.
>
> On 2009-06-25, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is why `C-x C-s' seems to me the perfect key for this.
>
> Agree.
>
>>> Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature  
>>> more
>>> consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like  
>>> dired,
>>> buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.
>
> Agree.
>
>> You know, I have been agonizing over these bindings,
>> switching them back and forward.  Obviously, I would like
>> to have things like in dired and similar programs.
>>
>> I don't want to switch `d' to `D', no way.  One of the consistent
>> things in the agenda keymap is that caleandar/diary related keys are
>> upper case.  `d' and `w' are not negotiable.
>
> OK, how about this?  (Not trying to /negotiate/, but offer another  
> poss :).)
>
> Keep archive-related commands together.  Also allow room for the  
> future.
>
> aa does what a does now
> av does what v does
>
> Keep view-related commands together.  Also keep dwmy consistency.
> Also allow room for the future.
>
> vd does what d does now
> vw
> vm
> vy
>
> Keep dired compatibility.
>
> m marks <-- i like this a lot
> something reasonable to execute, like x or M
> u unmarks
> U unmarks all
>
> Possible?  Or still not enough?

These are pretty good ideas.  I do like using v as a prefix key
for changing the view.  I do like vd vw vm vy.  I still want to
keep "d" and "w" as fast access keys for day and week view,
but month and year view are used much less, I am sure, so we
could free "m" in this way.

I don't think we shoud make "a" into a double key, instead
also the current "v" could become a double key under "v".  In fact,
log mode could go there as well if we needed the "l" key at some point.
Other candidates would be clock report, grid, and maybe more.

Opinions?

- Carsten



>
> -- 
> Myalgic encephalomyelitis denialism is causing death and severe  
> suffering,
> worse than MS.  Conflicts of interest are destroying research.  / 
> You/ can
> get the disease at any time permanently.  Do science and justice  
> matter to
> you?  http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/What_Is_ME_What_Is_CFS.htm

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26  5:18       ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26 10:06           ` peter.frings
                             ` (2 more replies)
  2009-06-26 10:59         ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  1 sibling, 3 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-26  8:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


I have changed the key bindings now:

s    back to save files, even tough I think C-x C-s is fine
      If I find a use for "s" later, I will probably take it
vd
vw
vm
vy  for the day, week, month, year views

d
w   still available shortcuts for day and week view

vl  for log mode, "l" still available as shortcut
va  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff
vA  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff and archive files

m   mark
u   unmark
U   unmark all
B   execute bulk action


This does feel pretty consistent to me and breaks as
little habits and tutorials as possible.

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-26 10:06           ` peter.frings
  2009-06-26 14:05           ` Bernt Hansen
  2009-06-26 14:14           ` Bastien
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: peter.frings @ 2009-06-26 10:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On 26 Jun 2009, at 10:03, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> I have changed the key bindings now:

Your response time continues to amaze me! And your willingness to  
accept requests... Chapeau!

[shortcuts snipped]

> This does feel pretty consistent to me and breaks as
> little habits and tutorials as possible.

Great, thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Peter.

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26  5:18       ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-06-26 10:59         ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
  2009-06-26 13:59           ` Carsten Dominik
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga @ 2009-06-26 10:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist

At Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:18:46 +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:

> These are pretty good ideas.  I do like using v as a prefix key
> for changing the view.  I do like vd vw vm vy.  I still want to
> keep "d" and "w" as fast access keys for day and week view,
> [...]
> Opinions?

+1

I like v as a prefix key for all "views" (as opposed to "actions")
including not only d and w but also the other items you mentioned
(clock report, etc).

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26 10:59         ` Eric S Fraga, Eric S Fraga
@ 2009-06-26 13:59           ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-06-26 13:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: e.fraga; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist


On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> At Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:18:46 +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> These are pretty good ideas.  I do like using v as a prefix key
>> for changing the view.  I do like vd vw vm vy.  I still want to
>> keep "d" and "w" as fast access keys for day and week view,
>> [...]
>> Opinions?
>
> +1
>
> I like v as a prefix key for all "views" (as opposed to "actions")
> including not only d and w but also the other items you mentioned
> (clock report, etc).

One advantage being that I can prompt you for the
second key, so there are fewer keys to rememeber.

Do you know Emacs calc?  It has this two-key interface
perfekted.

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26 10:06           ` peter.frings
@ 2009-06-26 14:05           ` Bernt Hansen
  2009-06-26 14:14           ` Bastien
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bernt Hansen @ 2009-06-26 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: Bastien, emacs-orgmode Mailinglist, Carsten Dominik

Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:

> I have changed the key bindings now:
>
> s    back to save files, even tough I think C-x C-s is fine
>      If I find a use for "s" later, I will probably take it
> vd
> vw
> vm
> vy  for the day, week, month, year views
>
> d
> w   still available shortcuts for day and week view
>
> vl  for log mode, "l" still available as shortcut
> va  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff
> vA  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff and archive files
>
> m   mark
> u   unmark
> U   unmark all
> B   execute bulk action
>

That'll work :)

-Bernt

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-26  8:03         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-06-26 10:06           ` peter.frings
  2009-06-26 14:05           ` Bernt Hansen
@ 2009-06-26 14:14           ` Bastien
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2009-06-26 14:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Carsten Dominik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist, Carsten Dominik

Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:

> s    back to save files, even tough I think C-x C-s is fine
>      If I find a use for "s" later, I will probably take it
> vd
> vw
> vm
> vy  for the day, week, month, year views
>
> d
> w   still available shortcuts for day and week view
>
> vl  for log mode, "l" still available as shortcut
> va  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff
> vA  include :ARCHIVE: tree stuff and archive files
>
> m   mark
> u   unmark
> U   unmark all
> B   execute bulk action
>
>
> This does feel pretty consistent to me and breaks as
> little habits and tutorials as possible.

Yeah, great solution - thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-06-25  7:10 Release 6.28 Carsten Dominik
                   ` (6 preceding siblings ...)
  2009-06-25 20:05 ` Matthew Lundin
@ 2009-07-01  7:20 ` Ulf Stegemann
  2009-07-01  9:47   ` Carsten Dominik
  7 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Ulf Stegemann @ 2009-07-01  7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bulk action
> ============
>
> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>
>  - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
>  - Archive all selected entries
>  - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>    blocking or note-taking.
>  - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>
> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.

IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.

Ulf

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* Re: Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-01  7:20 ` Ulf Stegemann
@ 2009-07-01  9:47   ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-07-01 10:26     ` Christian Egli
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-07-01  9:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ulf Stegemann; +Cc: emacs-orgmode


On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Bulk action
>> ============
>>
>> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
>> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
>> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
>> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
>> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>>
>> - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
>> - Archive all selected entries
>> - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>>   blocking or note-taking.
>> - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>>
>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>
> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.

In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting them  
all to a fixed date?

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-01  9:47   ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-07-01 10:26     ` Christian Egli
  2009-07-01 11:17       ` Ulf Stegemann
  2009-07-02 21:09       ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Christian Egli @ 2009-07-01 10:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


Hi all

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Bulk action
>>> ============
>>>
>>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>>
>> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
>
> In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting them
> all to a fixed date?

I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
(org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on some
of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
handy.

So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of TODOs.
In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.

Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).

Thanks
Christian

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-01 10:26     ` Christian Egli
@ 2009-07-01 11:17       ` Ulf Stegemann
  2009-07-02  9:58         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-07-02 21:09       ` Carsten Dominik
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Ulf Stegemann @ 2009-07-01 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Bulk action
>>>> ============
>>>>
>>>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>>>
>>> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
>>
>> In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting them
>> all to a fixed date?
>
> I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
> (org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on some
> of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
> handy.
>
> So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of TODOs.
> In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.
>
> Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
> this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
> tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
> rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).

Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can be
useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk version of
`org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
`org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to. Ideally,
S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule whenever
there are marked agenda items.

Ulf

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* Re: Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-01 11:17       ` Ulf Stegemann
@ 2009-07-02  9:58         ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-07-02 11:14           ` Ulf Stegemann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-07-02  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ulf Stegemann; +Cc: emacs-orgmode


On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
> Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can be
> useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
> or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk  
> version of
> `org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
> `org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to. Ideally,
> S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule  
> whenever
> there are marked agenda items.

I am not so sure about this last point.  I am not a
fan of automatic bulk action if several items are selected.

- these lists can become long, and selected entries might
   be off the screen
- for this to make sense, selected entries should remain
   selected after action, increasing the danger of unwanted action
- you might be in the process of selecting some entries, when you
   want to do a quick action on an individual entry you come across.
   But you cannot, because any action will act on all selected ones.

So I do prefer a special command like "B" to introduce bulk action.

Opinions?

- Carsten

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* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-02  9:58         ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-07-02 11:14           ` Ulf Stegemann
  2009-07-02 11:33             ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Ulf Stegemann @ 2009-07-02 11:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>> Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can be
>> useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
>> or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk version of
>> `org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
>> `org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to. Ideally,
>> S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule whenever
>> there are marked agenda items.
>
> I am not so sure about this last point.  I am not a
> fan of automatic bulk action if several items are selected.
>
> - these lists can become long, and selected entries might
>   be off the screen
> - for this to make sense, selected entries should remain
>   selected after action, increasing the danger of unwanted action
> - you might be in the process of selecting some entries, when you
>   want to do a quick action on an individual entry you come across.
>   But you cannot, because any action will act on all selected ones.
>
> So I do prefer a special command like "B" to introduce bulk action.

I undecided on this, too. Automagically working on marked entries should
they exists seems more natural to me but you are right more dangerous,
too. So I'm perfectly with you except that I'd say that marked entries
should be unmarked after the action. But anyway, triggering bulk actions
with a special command appears absolutely fine to me.

Ulf

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* Re: Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-02 11:14           ` Ulf Stegemann
@ 2009-07-02 11:33             ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-07-02 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ulf Stegemann; +Cc: emacs-orgmode


On Jul 2, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>> Yes, both shifting by the same amount and setting a fixed date can  
>>> be
>>> useful. I usually re-schedule leftover todos by shifting them by one
>>> or two working days to the future. So originally I had a bulk  
>>> version of
>>> `org-agenda-do-date-later' and friends in mind as opposed to
>>> `org-agenda-schedule'. But the latter one would be useful to.  
>>> Ideally,
>>> S-left, C-cC-s et al. would trigger a bulk shift/bulk schedule  
>>> whenever
>>> there are marked agenda items.
>>
>> I am not so sure about this last point.  I am not a
>> fan of automatic bulk action if several items are selected.
>>
>> - these lists can become long, and selected entries might
>>  be off the screen
>> - for this to make sense, selected entries should remain
>>  selected after action, increasing the danger of unwanted action
>> - you might be in the process of selecting some entries, when you
>>  want to do a quick action on an individual entry you come across.
>>  But you cannot, because any action will act on all selected ones.
>>
>> So I do prefer a special command like "B" to introduce bulk action.
>
> I undecided on this, too. Automagically working on marked entries  
> should
> they exists seems more natural to me but you are right more dangerous,
> too. So I'm perfectly with you except that I'd say that marked entries
> should be unmarked after the action.

The reason why I said they would have to stay marked is that when
you use S-right to reschedule, you want to be able to repeat
this command several times to reach the desired date.....

OK, settled, we will use the special command.

- Carsten

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* Re: Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-01 10:26     ` Christian Egli
  2009-07-01 11:17       ` Ulf Stegemann
@ 2009-07-02 21:09       ` Carsten Dominik
  2009-07-03 12:32         ` Ulf Stegemann
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 35+ messages in thread
From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-07-02 21:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christian Egli; +Cc: emacs-orgmode


On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Christian Egli wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Bulk action
>>>> ============
>>>>
>>>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>>>
>>> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
>>
>> In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting  
>> them
>> all to a fixed date?
>
> I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
> (org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on  
> some
> of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
> handy.
>
> So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of  
> TODOs.
> In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.
>
> Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
> this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
> tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
> rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).

This should work now, I added "s" and "d" as bulk commands.
Both commands will prompt for a date, and that date will be set for  
all entries.

If you specify something like "++2d" at the prompt, all
dates will be shifted by the same amount.

- Carsten

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 35+ messages in thread

* Re: Release 6.28
  2009-07-02 21:09       ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2009-07-03 12:32         ` Ulf Stegemann
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Ulf Stegemann @ 2009-07-03 12:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 1, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Christian Egli wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Bulk action
>>>>> ============
>>>>>
>>>>> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO setting scheduled (and maybe deadline) date would make sense.
>>>
>>> In what sense?  Shifting all dates by the same amount, or setting them
>>> all to a fixed date?
>>
>> I usually display unscheduled TODO items in my agenda as well
>> (org-agenda-include-all-todo), so if I decide that I should work on some
>> of them next week then a bulk action to schedule them might come in
>> handy.
>>
>> So one use case is to set a fixed scheduled date for a number of TODOs.
>> In my case these are tasks that have not been scheduled yet.
>>
>> Another use case is when I decide that there will not be enough time
>> this week to complete all scheduled tasks. I want to move some of the
>> tasks to next week. This could be either a shift by 7 days or a
>> rescheduling to next monday (a fixed date).
>
> This should work now, I added "s" and "d" as bulk commands.
> Both commands will prompt for a date, and that date will be set for all
> entries.
>
> If you specify something like "++2d" at the prompt, all
> dates will be shifted by the same amount.

Works like a charm and proves to be a useful time-saver from the very
fist moment on. Thanks for implementing it :)

Ulf

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