Re: Undoing from Org Done Notes

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

Hi Carsten,

I'll give Bernt's suggestion a try, and hopefully this will happen a lot 
less.  I am quite fond of the sequence shifting keys though, so we'll 
see how I get on.

Rather than re-defining undo, which I can see might cause problems. 
Would it be possible to add an extra command into that buffer (perhaps 
on C-c u) that was essentially a keyboard macro for this simple sequence?

C-c C-k
C-_

I've just tried a defining a macro for this, and it appears to work. 
Would having the following display be a good idea?

# Insert note for closed todo item.
# Finish with C-c C-c, cancel with C-c C-k, or restore the todo item
# to it's previous state with C-c u.

Thinking about this now, is there ever a time when you want to C-c C-k 
and not undo the state change??  For me, this would seem to be a better 
behaviour, but then I'm probably missing something.

Thanks again for your tireless work,

R.

Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> 
> since you are normally going to edit the note, certainly with the  
> ability
> to undo, I don't think it makes sense to redefine undo for this.  I  
> can see how what you
> ask for would be useful, but I see no good logic to implement it.
> 
> Maybe the easiest is to define yourself a separate key for switching  
> sequences,
> so that it is less likely to press S-right by accident?
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Rick Moynihan wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I make quite extensive use of org's sequences, and make use of the  
>> org-log-done features to prompt for a note when a task is closed.
>>
>> My problem is that when reorganising I often push a sequence on to a  
>> done state instead of switching sequences, i.e. I press S-<Right>  
>> instead of C-S-<Right>.  When this happens a note window is popped  
>> up, where by I am forced to press C-c C-k to close the note window,  
>> then I need to press C-S-_ to undo the original change.
>>
>> One thing I have noticed is that my reflex action upon seeing the  
>> Note and realising that's not what I want, is to press undo at that  
>> point. Rather than enter the mildly frustrating workflow above,  
>> would it be possible to have undo close the note, and then revert  
>> the headline into it's previous state, by calling undo again in the  
>> original buffer?
>>
>> Obviously you'd only want this if the Org Note buffer didn't contain  
>> any changes.  If it did, the stock undo behaviour makes sense,  
>> except when you've made some changes and spent all your undo's,  
>> pressing undo again might want to ask whether you want to close the  
>> note and revert the state change in the previous buffer.
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> R.
>>
>>
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