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From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: Bad doc [7.4]
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:56:49 -0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m239psjsby.wl%dave@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CCA4C041-F0A5-4C12-9AB9-4F8422A6BA63@gmail.com>

At Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:16:28 +0100,
Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> > Hmm, seems to me that it would be more principled to have org-capture
> > take an optional argument that indicates the template index, and ask
> > me and John to bind our key to (lambda () (org-capture 0))
> 
> You are right, this is better for consistency.

Plus, it would fix your documentation :-)

Here's a guideline I use: 

  if you're finding it difficult to document the behavior accurately,
  you probably designed it wrong or maybe you don't even really
  understand what it does.

That has happened to me enough times that it was worth making up a
guideline.

> You can do that already, bind something like (org-capture "t")
> where "t" is the selection key.
> 
> (define-key global-map "\C-c c"
>    (lambda () (interactive) (org-capture "t")))

Thanks; if the behavior is ever updated I will switch to that
arrangement.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-20  6:12 Bug: Bad doc [7.4] Dave Abrahams
2010-12-20  6:22 ` Leo
2010-12-20  7:21   ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-20  6:28 ` Noorul Islam K M
2010-12-20  6:58 ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-20  8:08   ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-20  7:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-20  8:06   ` Dave Abrahams
2010-12-20 14:16     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-20 16:56       ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2010-12-20 16:59         ` Carsten Dominik

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