Re: FR: toggling timestamps active/inactive

[Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>]

Rick Moynihan (rick@calicojack.co.uk) wrote:
> Adam Spiers wrote:
> >Hi Carsten,
> >
> >Another simple idea - subject line is pretty much self-explanatory I
> >think: would be great to be able to toggle timestamps between [] and
> ><>.
> >
> >Why?  Say I have an event in my diary.org file, and am subsequently
> >told my presence at the event is no longer necessary.  Consequently I
> >would like to keep it in the file for reference, to track colleagues'
> >movements or in case my presence is re-required, but I don't want the
> >event to appear in the agenda.
> >
> >By the way, I probably could have coded this in the time it took to
> >write the mail, but I thought that until I've sent a piece of paper to
> >the FSF assigning rights for code contributed to org-mode and emacs,
> >it would be better to let Carsten write it.  Is that correct or flawed
> >thinking?
> >
> 
> This seems like a good idea.  Another related one occurred to me today 
> (if it's necessary) which is toggling between the two list indicators.
> 
> e.g.
> 
> - foo
> - bar
>   - baz |<-- Point
> 
> Calling the toggle-list-indicator function at the point will cause the 
> list indicator to change from a - to a + (and vice versa).

Nice idea!  Or even between - and *** at the current level.  Maybe
that should cycle.  Or maybe there are already existing keybindings
which distinguish between new - and *** entries?  M-RET doesn't always
DWIM, personally.