From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature Request: org-agenda-set-category
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 05:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a21268bf7a20b9177adbc9d9853c8a39@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877in6e2fm.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On Sep 4, 2007, at 20:00, Bastien wrote:
> "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net> writes:
>
>> It would be nice to have an interactive org-agenda-set-category
>> alongside org-agenda-set-tag in the agenda buffer.
>
> I think it doesn't make sense to have `org-agenda-set-category' until
> we
> are able to set the category as a property of the headline.
>
> For now categories (like the archiving locations) are set by looking
> *backward* for a line like #+CATEGORY or #+ARCHIVE.
>
> When setting the category with `org-agenda-set-category', where should
> such a line be inserted/modified? Just above the headline? Then storing
> this headline won't delete the #+CATEGORY line. Just under the
> headline?
> Then the headline itself won't be recognized as belonging to that
> category... See the discussion here:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/2898
>
> Please anybody stops me if I'm wrong, but I guess the #+ARCHIVE and
> #+CATEGORY instructions are slowly dying and will be set as properties
> in the future.
I have been thinking in this direction as well. The only problem is
that properties are quite invisible during normal working.
But I agree that the multiple #+CATEGORY things in a single file are
complex and not very clean, so properties might be better.
>
> Then, in the new world, where such #+CONSTRUCTS are only used to set
> *file* properties (not headlines properties),
Yes, I'd like to go there, eventually.
> it will be okay to set
> whatever property you want through the column view -- and perhaps the
> column view itself would be available in the agenda ebuffer
it is!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 13:18 Feature Request: org-agenda-set-category T. V. Raman
2007-09-04 18:00 ` Bastien
2007-09-05 2:16 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-05 3:40 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-09-05 5:19 ` Bastien
2007-09-05 6:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-06 3:43 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-06 5:34 ` Bastien
2007-09-06 13:25 ` T. V. Raman
2007-09-07 8:04 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-09 14:21 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
2007-09-13 5:44 ` Carsten Dominik
2007-09-10 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2007-09-06 9:25 ` Christian Egli
2007-09-05 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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