From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Moynihan Subject: Re: definition lists in org-mode Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:28:31 +0100 Message-ID: <468E6DAF.1040100@calicojack.co.uk> References: <468E11C4.50604@calicojack.co.uk> <6da9122d5b79844f2856186565289598@science.uva.nl> <468E1D59.6030006@calicojack.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6qgV-0007sD-52 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6qgU-0007ry-CF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6qgU-0007rj-6X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:30 -0400 Received: from storm.bpweb.net ([83.223.106.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6qgT-0006c9-NR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eddward DeVilla Cc: org-mode Eddward DeVilla wrote: > On 7/6/07, Rick Moynihan 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.