Re: FR: toggling timestamps active/inactive

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Oct 16, 2007, at 18:22, Adam Spiers wrote:

> 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

This cammand does exist, it is `C-c -'.

>>
>> 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.

When you are in a list, M-RET makes the next list item, C-u M-RET makes
the next section, and C-RET does the same - even if for different 
reasons.

In what sense does M-RET not DWYM?

- Carsten