Re: Release 6.28

[Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Bulk action
> ============
>
> You can now use the `s' key to select entries in the agenda.
> When one or more entries have been selected, the `B' key will
> execute an action on all selected entries.  I believe this bulk
> action makes mainly sense for the commands that require answering
> interactive prompts.  So far the supported actions are
>
>  - Refile all selected entries to a single destination
>  - Archive all selected entries
>  - Set the TODO state of all selected entries, bypassing any
>    blocking or note-taking.
>  - Add or remove a tag to/from all selected entries
>
> We can add more actions, if you convince me they make sense.

I'm a bit disoriented with the new keybinding for `s' -- I got used 
to it the same way I'm used to `C-x C-s'.  

Also, I think it would be nice to make this "bulk action" feature more
consistent with bulk action mechanisms from other packages like dired,
buff-menu.el or bookmark-mode.el.

Here is how the keys are mapped on various modes:

| key | dired  & bookmark-mode & buff-menu | Org           |
|-----+------------------------------------+---------------|
| m   | mark                               | month view    |
| u   | unmark                             |               |
| d   | mark for deletion                  | day view      |
| D   | delete marked                      | include diary |
| x   | perform actions                    | exit agenda   |
| U   | unmark (only in dired)             | [unset]       |

I propose to use [dmuUx] the same way in Org.  We could move the daily,
weekly, monthly view to respectively D,W,M.

This would discard the diary inclusion (currently on 'D') and the
display of the Moon's phases (currently on 'M') -- not sure whether a
lot of people use this anyway, and these commands can still find key
bindings. 

I like 'U' from dired, it's very convenient to be able to delete all
marks at once (I which this could be implemented in buff-menu.el and
bookmark-mode as well...)

Carsten, what do you think?

-- 
 Bastien