Re: definition lists in org-mode

[Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>]

Eddward DeVilla wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk> wrote:
>> After thinking about it; I have on occasion wanted to schedule a
>> checkboxed item into the agenda.  This said I'm not convinced supporting
>> this is a good idea.  Does anyone else have any views?
> 
> I'm usually for collapsing similar things in to one more flexible
> thing, but there is a lot of meaning attached to something being a
> todo entry in the outline as opposed to being a mere checkbox in a
> list.  Some times it would be nice to steal a feature of one and use
> it on the other, but the implicit difference is too useful I think to
> collapse them.
> 

Agreed.  My gut feeling is that they fulfill largely different purposes. 
  The problem is that I tend to make a decision to structure something 
with lists & checkboxes, and later on discover I want an item in the 
list to appear inside the agenda.

Duplicating this into an outline is one way to achieve this; but this 
presents several problems:

- Your files rapidly become less DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) and harder 
to maintain.
- You loose the context of the list (i.e. any notion of sequence)

I guess these are the sorts of use-cases/trade-offs we should be 
discussing as part of David O'Toole's community writing suggestion.  Is 
anything happening with this yet?

R.