Re: One year after - questions and suggestions

[Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com>]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

>> - BUG: In agenda mode, C-e goes to the [last-1] char of the line.
>> (Note that this is not visible when the entries finishes with a
>> link.)
>
> It does because I want to avoid problems with the overlay keymaps
> and stuff like this.  Why is it a problem?

Well, it is not really.  

>>  ... but the drawer does not align with the stars.
>
> It is for me.  The reason why the indentation adaptation does not work
> it probably because you have lines that are not indented at all in the
> note as well.  This will inhibit org-adapt-indentation when pasting
> a subtree.  Only if all lines are indented at least one space, then
> indentation will be adapted during pasting.

Good to know, thanks.

>> - BUG?: When deleting an attachment, the :ID: property is not itself
>>  deleted.  Not sure if it's wrong, but it's weird.
>
> The ID property is something independent of the attachment,  how
> could Org know that you do not need it for different purposes?

For me the ID was created by attaching a file.  I expected detaching it
would delete the ID, but of course, IDs can have other purposes.

>>  property's value, have a way to use a calc or a tbl formula?
>>  Additionnally, have a _DEFAULT suffix to define defaults.
>
> There was a patch recently on the mailing list, subject "elisp
> formulas....."

Seen it, will test it closely.

>> - FR: A function to display the link the cursor is on (the same way
>> the
>>  mouse displays a small popup.)  This function would particularily be
>>  useful in the agenda view.
>
> C-c C-l  LOOK  RET RET   :-)

:)

> Hard to find new key bindings for these.

But C-c C-l is not accessible from the agenda, right?

>> - FR: When selecting an attachment, if there is already a directory
>>  defined for this the current entry, then use this directory as the
>>  default directory for browsing and select the attachment.
>
> You mean if there is an attachment directory defined?

Yes.

> What do you mean by "when selecting and attachment"?

C-c C-a should be aware of any previously defined directory, and take
this directory as the default directory when browsing for other files 
to attach.  Am I more clear?

>> - FR: Allow to insert "+1d"-type strings when picking up a date with
>>  `org-time-stamp'.
>
> This works for me, what am I missing here?

Weird.  C-c C-s + 1 d RET does only insert today's date here, no "+1d"
string.  

>> - FR: Symmetric to individual lead time, I wish I can have individual
>>  "remaining" time - for example, the number of days during which a
>>  deadline is still visible in the agenda view.  (That would happily
>>  steal 90% of what org-expiry.el is trying to achieve.)
>
> I think the purpose of deadlines is for them sting you until you do
> something about them?  For me it seems that this would be counter
> productive.  Why don't you tick off these items ok archive/kill them????

Well, let's say I plan to do something next week but it's not high
priority.  I want it to pop up in my agenda view next week, and stay for
three days, because passed this delay, I know I won't have any interest
in doing it anymore.  Having something like +3d looks consistent to me
-- but I agree I can find workarounds.  Or just fix my habits :)

>> - FR: Following a sh: or an elisp: link prompts the user for
>>  confirmation.  Can we have a variable that let the user to globally
>>  turn this off?
>
> Yes, there is such a variable: org-confirm-elisp-link-function
> and org-confirm-shell-link-function.

Great, thanks!

>> - FR: Visually mark (with #) entries that are marked in the agenda
>> view?
>
> I am not sure what you are talking about, what marking???

Sorry I meant when marking an entry with `k m' in agenda view.

>> - FR: When setting a mark in the agenda view, go to the next line?
>>  (Like in buffer-menu and other menu mode.)
>
> I am not sure what you are talking about, what marking???

Same here.  `k m' would jump to the next unmarked entry.

>> - FR: Maybe `?' could provide a little help in agenda mode.
>
> Hmmm, yes, why not.  What should it say?

Will think of it.

> Because, the keys are available in the menu.

Yeah, but maybe some people don't use menus (I don't).

>> - FR: Grouping several :clock: lines when clocking periods are very
>>  close to each other (with a user-defined threshold).  For example,
>>  clocking 5 times 10 minutes within the same hour would be rounded up
>>  to one hour.
>
> With things nicely tugged way into drawers, I see no reasons to do this.

The main reason was to cheat and try pretend you've been working 1 hour
when you really worked 50 minutes :)

>> - Q: Is there a way to select properties which values are = < > to a
>>  numeric value?
>
> yes! "PROPERTY<5" in any tags/property search

Great!

>> - Q/FR: How to go at the end of a field in a table?  Maybe C-a and C-e
>>  could be contextually redefined to do this, since a table is such a
>>  specific editing context.
>
> Word-motion commands?  I am not comfortable with overloading C-a and C-
> e.

forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph would make sense, no?  For now
M-} jumps out of the table.

>>  `C-c C-d SPC', `C-c C-s SPC' could respectively delete deadlines and
>>  scheduled properties.  Or maybe C-c C-u could remove any timestamp
>>  (this keystroke is free in org-agenda-mode since outline-mode is not
>>  loaded.)
>
> I believe C-u C-c C-s and C-u C-c C-d do this for Deadlines.  You men
> the time stamp w/o any keyword????

The problem is that you don't see whether an entry is scheduled or has a
deadline in agenda view.  How do you decide which one to delete?

Thanks for all answers!

-- 
 Bastien