From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Abrahams Subject: Re: Feature idea: show last log entry Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:44:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zkh6ytud.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RI41c-0003TD-3D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:48:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RI41a-0002jR-W4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:48:04 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39377) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RI41a-0002jK-Jm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:48:02 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RI41X-0001WY-NV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:47:59 +0200 Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:47:59 +0200 Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:47:59 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org on Wed Oct 12 2011, Achim Gratz wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: >> Generally I'm interested in keeping log entries for my Org items for > >> historical purposes only (so I like to stash them away in a :LOGBOOK: >> drawer), but on a day-to-day basis I'm interested in the very latest log >> entry; it tells me about the status of the item. For example, if I've >> made a task DELEGATED, the latest log entry usually has the person I've >> delegated it to and often a link to the mail message in which I did the >> delegation. So I'd like a feature that would leave the latest log entry >> outside the drawer, and always file the previous log entry into the >> drawer when I make a new one. > > I'm currently using something similar with two drawers back-to-back: > > :LOGBOOK: > shiny > :END: > :CLOSED: > old cruft > :END: > > That means I have to move old stuff by hand from LOGBOOK to CLOSED (what > I really do is move the :END:/:CLOSED: markers normally), but the way > I'm using this it hasn't been too much trouble. Yeah... that's really not what I want: a) because it would be "too much trouble" for me :-) b) because it would take up screen real-estate to show :LOGBOOK: and :END: about which I don't care at all. > That said, I've been thinking of extending drawers to have "stops", that > is each visibility cycle on a drawer would just pull it out to the next > stop. Specifically for timestamps there should be some function to > auto-move the stop (current+last week for instance). Presumably if that > was made into a more general function one could also just keep a certain > number of lines before the stop. That too sounds cool, but really not what I'm after because of the extra verbosity. With every item there's information that's "current" and then there's the change history, and I want to keep the current information outside the drawer. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com