Re: How to copy an agenda buffer into another buffer for editing

[Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk>]

Hi Carsten

>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

    Carsten> Now that is an interesting bug, and it is actually
    Carsten> dangerous.

:-)

    Carsten> This is, in fact, a dangerous bug, because if, for example,
    Carsten> you press C-k on one of those lines, the corresponding
    Carsten> entry in the org-mode file or in the diary will be
    Carsten> *removed*.  So don't do that, and I hope you have not
    Carsten> destroyed something already.

Nearly. Thank goodness for undo eh ?

    Carsten> A work-around is to use the following function to copy the
    Carsten> region from the agenda buffer.  It does the same thing as
    Carsten> M-w, but does not take along any text properties.

I haven't tried that because I tried:

    Carsten> Hmmmmm, I am just thinking, that a general solution for
    Carsten> this might instead be:

    Carsten> (add-hook 'org-agenda-mode-hook (lambda ()
    Carsten> (make-local-variable 'buffer-substring-filters) (setq
    Carsten> buffer-substring-filters (cons (lambda (x)
    Carsten> (set-text-properties 0 (length x) nil x) x)
    Carsten> buffer-substring-filters))))

and this works (once I killed the *Org Agenda* buffer off and
regenerated it).

Superb. Thanks.
Pete