Re: New implementation of the Org remember process ready for comments and testing

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>            New implementation of the Org remember process
>>            ==============================================
>
> Cool!!
>
>> 6.4 Multiple capture events going on at the same time
>> ======================================================
>>
>>   If you need to capture something while already capturing something
>>   else, you can now do so.  Finishing the second process will
>>   automatically return you to the window setup of the first one.
>>
>>   Bernt, this might lead to confusing results if you would try to
>>   port your immediate clock-in, clock-out code.  It will probably be
>>   better (if you decide at all to try the new code) to use the
>>   built-in :clock-in and :clock-resume properties:
>>
>>   These will even work for a chain: start capture 1, then 2, then 3,
>>   finalize 3, then 2, then 1, and the previous clock will be
>>   restarted each time.  Only when you finish the captures in a
>>   different sequence, then the clock-resume stuff will lead to
>>   undefined results.
>
> This all sounds really good.  I look forward to test driving it when I
> have some extra time to tinker with my setup.  I really appreciate the
> effort  you went through to keep the existing remember process so  
> that I
> can try these in parallel -- this will make me try it much sooner  
> than I
> would otherwise.  It's too disruptive to switch the entire remember
> process and have things break and no way to continue in a reasonable
> amount of time.
>
> The auto-clocking functionality sounds great.  I'll let you know how
> that works out.
>
> My current setup with auto-clocking remember buffers seems to break  
> the
> old remember system a little - switching remember templates while the
> clock is running gets it all confused so I just kill (C-c C-k) then
> restart remember if I need a different template.

Yes.  But template switching is no longer supported in org-capture.el  
either.

- Carsten